{"id":1003411,"date":"2022-02-25T06:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T06:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/we-cannot-play-against-russia-swedish-fa\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T06:23:19","slug":"we-cannot-play-against-russia-swedish-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/we-cannot-play-against-russia-swedish-fa\/","title":{"rendered":"We Cannot Play Against Russia\u2019 \u2013 Swedish FA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Swedish Football Association, Karl-Erik Nilsson, believes it is \u201calmost unthinkable\u201d that his country would play a World Cup play-off final in Moscow, given Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nilsson, believes that the military situation between Russia and Ukraine renders that potential match inconceivable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a possible scenario and the feelings we have as we wake up this morning are that it is almost unthinkable that we in a few weeks would play a football match in Russia. As it looks here and now, today, there is absolutely no desire to play a football match in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden are due to take on the Czech Republic in a World Cup play-off semi-final on March 24, before then facing a trip to the winner of Russia\u2019s semi-final against Poland on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Luke Bosher<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018 The President of the Swedish Football Association, Karl-Erik Nilsson, believes it is \u201calmost unthinkable\u201d that his country would play a World Cup play-off final in Moscow, given Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. Nilsson, believes that the military situation between Russia and Ukraine renders that potential match inconceivable. \u201cIt\u2019s a possible scenario and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1003412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[463,5339,5434],"class_list":["post-1003411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-play","tag-russia","tag-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}