{"id":1006516,"date":"2022-02-28T20:05:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fifa-set-to-suspend-russia-from-internationals\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:05:44","slug":"fifa-set-to-suspend-russia-from-internationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fifa-set-to-suspend-russia-from-internationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa set to suspend Russia from internationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/afp_en_9eec275929b68e9864dc925ab2d21580996318d9-696x463.jpg\"   alt=\"FIFA\" title=\"FIFA\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIFA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fifa is set to suspend Russia\u2019s national teams from international football until further notice due to the country\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, a source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa is in advanced talks with European soccer body Uefa over the matter and a decision could be made later on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>European governing body Uefa is due to hold a meeting at 1800 CET on Monday to decide on several issues relating to Russian football.<\/p>\n<p>Russia are scheduled to host Poland in a World Cup qualifying playoff on 24 March and if they remained suspended at that time, they would be out of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The Polish FA had said that they will refuse to play against the Russian team.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension would cover all Russian national teams \u2014 the women\u2019s team are due to play in Uefa\u2019s Euro 2022 competition in England in July.<\/p>\n<p>Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a \u201cspecial operation\u201d that it says is not designed to occupy territory but to destroy its southern neighbour\u2019s military capabilities and capture what it regards as dangerous nationalists.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"1QmAcGbU37Y\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam on Adom TV (28-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QmAcGbU37Y?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA Fifa is set to suspend Russia\u2019s national teams from international football until further notice due to the country\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, a source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Monday. Fifa is in advanced talks with European soccer body Uefa over the matter and a decision could be made later on Monday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[779,5530,5339,618,515],"class_list":["post-1006516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa","tag-internationals","tag-russia","tag-set","tag-suspend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006516","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=1006516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}