Not even her national team Czech Republic is going to fight against Russia for playoff of the upcoming World Cupas made known by an official announcement of the country’s Football Federation.
Thus, the Czech Republic became the third country (preceded by the reactions of Poland and Sweden) that refuses to play Russia in the playoffs in Marchas a sign of protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Recall that, as planned, the Czech Republic will face Sweden and Poland Russia for the semifinals of the playoffs in its qualifiers World Cupwith the winners of the two pairs then competing for a place in the Qatar tournament.
However, now all this is in the air and it remains to be seen how it will manage the situation and what decisions the FIFA.
“The Extraordinary Executive Committee of the Czech Football Federation, chaired by Petr Fusek, made the following decisions at its meeting on 27 February:
“The decision was unanimously approved that the Czech national team will not play in any case with the Russian team for the playoffs of the 2022 World Cup. The Commission has ordered the start of negotiations with UEFA and FIFA on our decision.” typically states the announcement of the Czech Football Federation.
?? VV FACR schvalil jednomyslne rozhodnuti, ze ceska narodni representa v zadnem pripade v barazi kallifikace MS 2022 nenastoupi do pripadneho utkani proti vyberu Ruska.
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– Ceska fotbalova reprezentace (@ceskarepre_cz) February 27, 2022
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