A reputation built over decades that European soccer body UEFA is the good guy compared to FIFA as a cartoon caricature villain is being tested in this tough season for off-field politics
imposed jointly with FIFA days after the country invaded Ukraine. UEFA aims to have Russian boys and girls playing in under-17 European Championship qualifying groups that start this month.
“The principles of the institution are not protected,” suggested Olsson, the UEFA chief executive at the end of his fellow Swede Johansson’s 17-year presidency through 2007. Olsson returned to UEFA as an executive committee member from 2018-21 representing European leagues.of the meeting in Cyprus. Nor was there a post-meeting news conference for the third straight time this year.
At least 12 of the 55 UEFA member federations this week stated or repeated their refusal to play Russian teams. They include Ukraine but also England, Poland, and Wales – home federations of UEFA vice presidents, respectively, David Gill, Zbigniew Boniek and Laura McAllister — and Romania, where federation president Răzvan Burleanu is a UEFA delegate to FIFA’s ruling council.
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