Alexander GovorovSport correspondentAll materialsThe Russian national football team, following the omission of the 2022 World Cup, will not play in another major tournament — Euro 2024. It seems that Ukraine pushed through its demand to remove Russia, and UEFA simply agreed with this. There were hopes to the last Russian football, despite all the hopes of fans and leaders, will continue to be in international isolation for at least another year and a half. Everyone has already survived the suspension from the World Cup in Qatar, and now it's the turn of the European championship in 2024. Moreover, there were still some chances that Russia would be allowed to qualify for the qualifying tournament. In some sports, our athletes were treated loyally and were not against their participation in international tournaments. Russia is likely to be allowed to participate in the Hockey World Cup — the largest competition, comparable in level to the Olympics with NHL players. The option to play a friendly football match with Bosnia and Herzegovina, a good European team, loomed. Russian tennis players have not gone anywhere, continuing to play quietly at the US Open and other tournaments.
Football. Qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup. Russia-SlovakiaUkraine decided everything? All this gave signals for warming relations with Western federations. However, Valery Karpin's team will still not be allowed into Euro 2024. Moreover, Andriy Pavelko, the head of the Ukrainian Football Association, was the first to say this. social networks. Earlier, the same Pavelko stated that his organization «is making every effort at the UEFA level» so that Russia is not allowed to the draw for the European Football Championship. Obviously, UEFA not only heard him, but accepted the official's words as an order. After all, Pavelko himself used the word “demanded” in his publication, that is, by and large, did not leave any choice to UEFA. Who will go in the West against Ukraine now? Yes, they will immediately peck him up and call him an enemy of democracy. Here at UEFA, they did not object to anything. And, by the way, they were not even indignant that Pavelko was the first to give such news, and not the official representatives of the organization. Only a few hours later, an official release from the RFU came out, where the fact that Russia was simply kicked out of Euro 2024 was confirmed. «The reason is UEFA's decision in February to suspend the participation of Russian national teams and clubs in competitions under the auspices of the organization, which is by default «until further notice,» the press release says.
