The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that the 2018 world Cup football in the Russian Federation ought to be ignored as long as long as the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine will not become settled.
"I think you need to talk about the boycott of the world Cup. As long as Russian troops are in Ukraine, I think holding the world championship in this country is unthinkable, " Poroshenko said in an interview with the German publication Bild, reports RT. He has supplemented his words the fact that the policy should not have a relationship to the sport, but as long as the situation in the Donbass not settled and successful football team from Donetsk "Shakhtar" forced to train for 1, 2 thousand Miles from his native city, in Lviv. Add that on March 13, Vice-President of the international football Federation (FIFA) Jeffrey Webb said that the world championship football "can not be performed in the current conditions" - " we need to make a lot of educational work ". However, He was referring to the problem of racism." Undoubtedly, the world Cup in Russia is a big challenge for FIFA in terms of the problem of racism, " He said. However, in November last year, the FIFA Secretary General j?r?me Walke said that the world Cup 2018 in Russia is not obliged be used for political purposes. Russia received the right to host the 2018 world Cup events held on 2 December 2010.


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