DOHA, Mar 31, Yulia Troitskaya. To the Russian Football Union (RFU) left the International Football Federation (FIFA), there was no reason, said a member of the Russian delegation to the FIFA Congress Alexei Sorokin, whose words are reported by the correspondent. On Monday, sports journalist Nobel Arustamyan said that at a meeting of the FIFA Congress in Doha on March 31, decision to remove the RFU. On Thursday, the FIFA congress did not consider the issue of suspending the membership of the RFU in the organization.
"The RFU should not have left FIFA. Expectations — yes (were alarming), but there is a FIFA statute, which lists all the reasons why the federation can be suspended or can "suspend" her condition. The RFU did nothing for FIFA to do something. We live mainly in the legal field,» Sorokin told reporters.
«Legally, we see no reason why we should not be at the congress. The RFU does not violate any FIFA documents and recommendations, so there are no reasons for which we should be absent from the congress, no,» he added.