Who will represent the Russian clubs next season? (Olga Maltseva/AFP)
announce Russian Federation Football, Friday, he would like to return his teams To international competition, following threatening to leave the European Union for the game and join its Asian counterpart.
And the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Russian Federation decided not to move to Asia at the present time, and the President of the Russian Federation, Alexander Dyukov, said, in statements reported by the Spanish news agency “EFE”: “We are already studying the option of returning to UEFA competitions as soon as possible.”
The statement added, “It is important for us to participate in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. We propose to set up a group to conduct consultations with the European Union in an attempt to resume relations. I do not rule out that Russia will seek membership in the Asian Football Confederation at a later stage.”
The ban imposed by the European Union led to the exclusion of Russia from the draw for the European Cup 2024 qualifiers, which begin next March.
Russia was also banned from international football competitions by FIFA, which prevented it from participating in the qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which recently ended with Argentina winning the title.