MOSCOW, December 24 The best football player of the USSR in 1972 and bronze Olympic medalist Evgeny Lovchev believes that the International Football Federation (FIFA) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have ceased to be the dominant organizations in world football.
On Wednesday, a meeting of the RFU executive committee was held in Moscow, at which its members unanimously voted against the transfer to the Asian Football Confederation from UEFA.
«» Regarding the decision of the executive committee not to go to Asia and continue to wait. I specifically wrote — to continue to wait, because, if cynically, even if we get away from the Luna Confederation, the next World Cup will be in Canada, the USA and Mexico . They simply won’t let us go there — they won’t give us a visa, they’ll turn us away at the border. It’s like the story of Shapi (Suleymanov), who was not allowed into one of the countries. That is, the question is simple — it turns out that UEFA and FIFA have ceased to be dominant in the world football, they cannot resolve issues with states that do as they see fit. And FIFA and UEFA cannot do anything, because these organizations have ceased to be an authority after their decisions. And what will FIFA do if we withdraw from Asia, and “The United States, Canada and Mexico won’t give visas, won’t they allow the Russian team to pass at the border? Will they say that then the World Cup will be cancelled? But FIFA won’t be able to do this, it won’t have enough authority and power,” Lovchev wrote on the Telegram channel.
«Therefore, we need to do what, in principle, should have always been done — develop our football. Play, work, develop youth football while there is time. Perhaps reduce the number of foreigners so that there are more Russian players — so that there is The national team has a choice when we return. But this is not happening and will not happen. Everything is going as it was. Nothing has changed — we bought foreigners, so we continue,» he added.