Today we’re taking a look at what has happened to football in Russia in the year since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the sporting sanctions that followed.
It’s pretty mad to think that less than five years ago Russia hosted the World Cup, the globe’s biggest sporting event in terms of viewership, welcoming millions of fans from around the world to a tournament that was ultimately very successful for the country.
The host nation went on a memorable run to the quarter-finals, beating former champions Spain en route; president Vladimir Putin seemingly proved his claim that Russia was “an open, friendly and hospitable country” following concerns about the country’s hooligan culture with a tournament largely devoid of fan violence; and four years after the annexation of Crimea, which led to years of military conflict in eastern Ukraine, and just months after the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal on British soil, an attack which despite Russia’s continued denials of having any involvement in led to them being condemned by multiple western nations, the tournament helped consolidate Putin’s position on the world stage, rubbing shoulders with a number of world leaders and FIFA president Gianni Infantino in front of tens of millions of television viewers.
Subsequently, St Petersburg was awarded the 2022 Champions League final, and Russia hosted seven games at the delayed Euro 2020 tournament in the summer of 2021 – only England hosted more – as they bid to host the tournament in 2028. But less than 12 months after that, the picture of Russian football could not have looked more different, after FIFA and UEFA made a joint-decision to suspend the country’s national teams and clubs from participating in their tournaments following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which Putin labelled a “special military operation.”
This has led to a mass exodus of players from the previously lucrative Russian Premier League, the national teams having almost no one to play against, and reports that Russia’s football federation are considering the possibility of leaving UEFA to join the Asian Football Confederation.
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21 Comments
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I think Abby Russian player who has dual citizenship should be able to switch nations, like Arsen Zakharayan. He’s born in Russia, but his parents are Armenian
They need to be kicked to the Asian(AFC) competition and never return to the Europe(UEFA).
West nations are hypocrite Russia needed SMO. Football is just another tool for win against nations
Imagine that they join the AFC and Zenit Plays in the AFC champions league 💀😭
Idgaf
Russian Football will never be the same again when the war ends. Their reputation to be fair no fault of their own is severely damaged by the war on Ukraine and it will be very difficult to attract more talent in the Russian League.
Russian attacks ukrain
Uefa and fifa:Ban all of their teams.
Israel attacks palestine
Uefa and fifa:Sorry we are blind we dont see anything.
the hard work will pay off
So much for keeping politics out of football lol
Very interesting
Last night's match of the day was great , shame the game commantry was also removed but noone did it like motto anyway
The dude on the right of the thumbnail (Sobolev), is a husband to my friend’s ex. We used to hang out with her when we were teens. Small world.
Russian football is shit anyway like everything else they do pure sheyet
The sanctions that have been applied to Russia should apply to Turkey aswell as the have invaded Cyprus in 1974 and still have the half of the island under their law by calling it Northern Cyprus which no other country in the world acknowledge it.
Honestly dont care about the damage on russian football but i am sorry for the ukranian fooball. Ukranian football is, somehow, still going on despite teams are currently playing several kms away from homecities
still waiting for the US, UK and France to be sanctioned and kicked out of the World Cup for the millions of people they've murdered and countless countries they've invaded
russia will soon prevail
You got to also remember that some players are worried about speaking out against the conflict, with former Russian international; Igor Denisov mentioning that he fears he would've been imprisoned or killed for speaking out against the war. Don't forget, the president of Lukoil (the 2nd biggest oil company and owners of Spartak Moscow); Ravil Maganov called the war a tragedy and hoped that the situation could be resolved peacefully. On September 1st, 2022, Vladimir Putin was visiting a hospital where Maganov was receiving treatment and the Lokoil president would die later that day after falling from the 6th story of the hospital.
The amount of foreign players in the Russian Premier League is definitely not 45, it's way more. Krasnodar have 11, Khimki have 11, Zenit have 10, Spartak Moscow have 8, Dynamo Moscow have 8 ans CSKA Moscow have 7. That's already more than 45 and there's still TEN more teams in the league.
Funny how football has no problem with countries that can actually provide them with oil; a conflict in the middle east that's killed more children than Russians have killed Ukrainian grown men… clowns lmao. Lest we forget a country that literally had hundreds of slaves die was allowed to host the last world cup LMAO, precious oil I guess