The TAS leaves Russia without a World Cup

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) today rejected the appeal filed by the Russian Football Union (UFR) to the suspension of its national football team due to the Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine.

The CAS refused to postpone the World Cup playoff dispute, in which Russia was to first receive Poland in Moscow on March 24reported the UFR in a statement.

“In this way, the TAS refused to satisfy all the requests presented by the UFR,” he added.

This decision means, in fact, the exclusion of Russia from the World Cup in Qatar.

In case of victory over Polandthe Slavic team had to face on March 29 at home the winner of the confrontation between Sweden and the Czech Republic.

Those three rivals had been opposed to playing with Russia in revulsion at his military intervention in Ukrainecondemned mostly by the international community.

Russiawhich reached the quarterfinals at the 2018 World Cup, was second in Group H after Croatia, who snatched the lead in the last qualifying match.

the selector, Valeri Karpin, called for the friendly matches that his team will play this week only footballers who play in the Russian league.

Karpinwhich left in mid-2021 the Rostov to assume the reins of the national team, he has advocated an end to Russian military intervention.

Among the Russian internationals, the forward of the Dynamo Moscow, Fyodor Smolovrejected war and expressed appreciation to Ukraine on social networks.