The world government of the cornered ball chooses a third way: the motivation would be to remove the representation and protect the players. Pilates solution: restrictive rules established, but Russia will be able to play. Like the IOC with doping, football also takes refuge in anachronistic neutrality
S.and history learns nothing it is unlikely that sport will succeed. Fifa copies the worst decision ever made by the IOC and forbids Russia to carry its name, the flag, to listen to the anthem but not to play.
The board of the council, the president Gianni Infantino and the heads of the six confederations, voted unanimously with the warning that this is the reaction to the current situation and may vary, “for the future all possibilities remain open, including disqualification”, but now is the worst moment, that of the invasion, the one in which you shoot and die.
Matches on neutral ground and closed doors: Poland, on March 24, for the first playoff on the road to the World Cup will not meet Russia but Rfu (Football Union Russia). Neutrality is demanded which has already proved impossible in practice.
The dialogue with Poland, Sweden and the Czech Republic who refuse to meet Russia remains open, as well as the hypothesis of going further, of being more severe. Like the IOC, Fifa says to put the athletes first, they are not responsible for the conflict and therefore should not be punished. In addition, in theory, without coats of arms and homeland to wave, the team would not represent the state, it would not represent Putin. But no, this is where the past has already given the answer. The IOC tries to unmark itself without snatching from three Olympics and it is getting worse and worse, the golds are always from Putin however unfair it is towards those who win them, he treats the medalists as heroes, he endorses a sports policy based on the cult of success in any cost. The kind of setting that leads a 15-year-old girl to take an anti-doping banned heart drug. The kind of indifference that leaves the same teenager jumping on an ice rink as the ice cracks and leaves her crying alone when a girl of her age replaces her in first place. Without anthem and flag but always Russia. Football replicates contested, unsuccessful behavior and at this point the reason is no longer even so important. It is not even the dangerous friendships, the close encounters between Infantino and Putin and the many understandably intricate relationships between the football powers and the Russians that define the problem. Worse, this solution is sure not to work. If the Russian football federation goes to the World Cup it will be Russia with all that follows. The photos, the phrases, the ceremonies. The same seen in recent years with the official speeches in which athletes are told to use spite as fuel. Being without a flag should increase the desire to beat the opponent.
The motivation behind the vote would be to remove the representation and protect the players, unfortunately it cannot, it does not work and in fact Poland rejects the offer: “We are not interested in playing against Russia whatever it is called”. Fifa has only taken time and is still at the crossroads between the disqualification of the Russians and the defeat at the table (with fine) for the Poles and for the Swedes or Czechs who will comefter. The same goes for England: regardless of the calendar, he will not take the field with the Russians. And this summer there is also the women’s European Championship with Russia qualified and England as host country. Sport has learned nothing.
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