On Thursday, Cameroon became the latest nation to play a friendly against a Russian team who remain banned from competitive football
It is Tuesday evening at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and a welcome party has been assembled in the arrivals lounge. Three women in traditional Russian clothing, along with a man playing an accordion. All are there to greet the squad off their flight and for Rigobert Song, the visitors’ head coach, there is even a tray of freshly baked bread as a gift. Smiles for the cameras, all conviviality. “Welcome to Russia!” exclaims the national football association in a social media post.
and UEFA can put up obstacles but life will go on. Russia’s Fedor Chalov celebrates scoring the only goal of the game against Cameroon Reports in Africa have suggested that all of Cameroon’s costs had been covered by the host FA but, with another game to come against Kenya on Tuesday, Russia’s is now a fixture list drawn up by geopolitics. Allies and strategic partners have been prepared to fill the void that has come without competitive matches and the scope of those is spreading.
’s rankings, where Russia currently stand between and in 39th. The Russian women’s team, who had their qualification for last summer’s European Championships revoked, are 25th in a year that has so far only brought friendly challenges against Iran, China and Belarus. Bringing Cameroon to Moscow, however, was Russia’s biggest sporting moment since the Ukraine war began.
and UEFA have no support from within to alter their stance, especially not in a week when the International Olympic Committee chose to suspend the Russian Olympic Committee “with immediate effect until further notice” after it was decided Ukrainian territories had been illegally annexed. Russia’s sportsmen and women must live with the consequences of Putin’s military attacks on a neighbour and to the footballers, there is no suggestion competitive games will return in the near future.
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