MOSCOW, April 12, Alexander Sergeev. Sports lawyer Anna Antseliovich stated that the Russian Football Union (RFU) has a chance to achieve a positive decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding payments in favor of children's and youth sports in Russia. Earlier it became known that the RFU would file another claim with CAS against the International Football Federation (FIFA) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to compensate for monetary costs due to the suspension of sponsorship agreements, as well as the suspension of payments for children's and youth programs that were launched at the initiative of FIFA and UEFA and are regulated by previously concluded contracts. «It's hard for me to talk about sponsorship contracts «This is a contract dispute within the framework of civil law. As for youth sports, the situation here is strange. The RFU was not excluded, its membership was not suspended. It fulfills all obligations wa before FIFA and UEFA. In any case, the federation is being removed on a rather subjective basis. Such a category as children, which is quite vulnerable, is punished for some reason. CAS arbitrators should take this into account. This situation has quite good prospects of being challenged,» Anceliovich said.
