FIFA should stay out of politics but until a certain point not when a country invades a country out of nowhere claiming bullshit like they are going to clean Ukraine from the nazis running the government over there and committing genocide against the Russian minority.It is a fair decision from FIFA following all the international community by condemning Russia out of their competitions and I think for Poland they need to find a new solution but if they can't,then it is normal for them to get 3-0 table result because it is not Poland fault that Russia started an invasion out of nowhere.
Russia is in the wrong here and what they did was a crime against humanity and I hate Putin as much as the next person. However if Fifa really wants to stay out of politics, then just like how they are removing Russia in flags and so forth, they should also remove Qatar from contention to be the world cup place as well considering they are ruining the world to begin with.
It is really not fair to see them being angry over what's going on in Ukraine and then ignore everything else that doesn't bother them personally. There are deaths and wars all around the world constantly and Fifa rarely ever does anything. Russia is wrong, it is good what they did to Russia and I support it, but do it to other bad nations as well.
I especially wonder what will happen once Putin withdraws his troops and the war ends. How will FIFA and UEFA solve that? The sanctions that have been imposed, would they all be removed again? There are a lot of sanctions. By the way, Russia has no significant role in the World Cup, maybe they could survive the group stage with luck, but then it really ends. No one will miss Russia at the World Cup, if they qualify at all. At the moment there is also no team that wants to play against Russia.
I think their decision is final and there is not going to be any way to change it, while some people believe that FIFA should stay away from politics, and I think this should be the case for any sport federation, the truth is that if their members desire to take a side in the political arena then they are going to be forced to do so as well.
And in the current climate the easiest decision for FIFA to take was to take the side which is against Russia, as in the eyes of many people the war seems unjustified, so FIFA did not really had too much of a choice to begin with but to implement those sanctions.
If the sanctions directly affected the rulers, it would be ideal, the bad thing is that it affects people who have nothing to do with political conflicts, Russian soccer players are just that, soccer players, besides, I had seen that Russian soccer has grown enormously in recent years, it is a pity that they have rushed to make decisions like this, I do not know what is better, because this brings as a consequence what I have said before, an enormous Xenophobia, what I wonder is: what will these footballers do ? How will they face everything they have to do in their commitments? the Russian national team is no longer in FIFA, so these players are also betated?
In another order of ideas, it hurts me that the Italian national team has lost, it is incredible how a country like North Macedonia has left Italy without a World Cup, with this it is the 3rd World Cup that Italy has lost and apart from the second consecutive World Cup for the which do not go, what will result in Italian football? On the other hand, Portugal should not be overconfident, I want to see CR7 in this World Cup.
