Details of the most resonant impulses of the last days of the year.
No official position fifa and FCA
How often do you visit strangers without being invited? This is the problem with an emergency attempt to switch from Western Express to Eastern Express. And not an Istanbul, but an Indian train. And a first class ticket RFS extension will not be released. We’ll have to ride with the breeze on the roof of the car, hiding from everyone in Asia who could oppose the inclusion of Russian clubs and teams in official competitions.
The elephant in the Asian china shop also has plans to include new clubs in the lower leagues. Then Infantino will suspend the enrollment RFS extension in fifa. But even if not, we will not hear the Asians’ enthusiasm that in their Champions League four places will be taken by the championship, which recently was in the European six. After tightening the limit on foreign players, things got worse, but by the standards of Asian clubs, the Russians are clearly not the weakest.
Also, the entry of the Russian team into the Asian qualifier for world Cup-2026 damages teams from China, Uzbekistan and United Arab Emirates. Asia’s quota will be increased, there will be a tournament for 48 participants, but nobody needs a strong competitor. The Japanese, Australians and South Koreans can offer Russia a fourth basket. And if Karpin gets eliminated in the first or second round in Asia, will the transition be such a blessing?
Exit from Uefa easier than going back
Čeferin said mid-year that the idea of a transition RFS extension under the wing of the AFC “will take Russian football back a hundred years”. There are also hints that Uefa need 40 million euros from Russian sponsors. Bonuses for Champions League clubs alone have exceeded €2bn per season. Loss RFS extension and RPL for European football in a financial sense it means nothing.
Conference League Club Cash Rewards €235m Overheads Uefa – more than 3.5 billion a year. No single Russian sponsor brings so much quarrel with others. European football earns and will earn even more, because the World Cup in Qatar brought football to the attention of those who hadn’t watched it before.
These are new customers with paid channel subscriptions, site visits, rates, and so on. suggests that in RFS extension talk about AFK a Uefa got scared and removed the bans, to put it mildly, not like the truth. Čeferin will be happy if Russian clubs and the national team are brought to Asia, it’s more convenient for him. Karpin’s team was not allowed to qualify for Euro 2024, but don’t forget who dispersed the Blatter clan either.
The Swiss was untouchable and North American prosecutors took him. Where will the next World Cup take place? Even if we imagine that Koloskov does not understand anything about the football bureaucracy – and he understands, so he compared the new initiative RFS extension with entry into the “swamp”, where he guarantees that the Russian team will be entered into the selection world Cupwhich will take place in United States of AmericaCanada and Mexico?
If two out of three hosts are against it, let us recall Dyukov’s words that now “politics is more important than football”. In that case, only the 2027 Asian Cup remains. Exit from Uefa theoretically possible, but if you play under the auspices of the AFC for three or four years, you can forget about going back decades. You can leave for Asia later, but it will be incredibly difficult to return.
The main problem is club football
The Asian Champions League has a hard limit on foreign players. They want to raise quotas for foreigners, and for all Russians, if they accept clubs RFS extension, will write in Asian. But even so, the restrictions differ from those in RPL. And that they are not in the Champions League. Buying benefit with transfers will not work. And what will be the motivation of the legionnaires to play in Russia if they make sure they never hear the anthem of the European Champions League?
Also, don’t forget about wealth. Uefa. The argument that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have money does not mean that the Asian Champions League earns enough to support not only Spartak, Lokomotiv and CSKA, but also take care of, for example, Russian children’s football. Money Uefa great help where many did not notice this help and did not appreciate it. “Solidarity payments” on Uefa it will soon reach 300 million euros.
Asian Champions League makes ridiculously little. The winner is paid just $4 million. In the past, they laughed that Spartak got from RPL 5 million euros, rightly considering the amount incomparable with those that Fedun and Alekperov have invested in the “red and white” for years. For a flight to India, Iran and Qatar, if the conditional “Rostov” breaks through. Champions League Western Region, the club will spend more than it earns.
There are no guarantees that there will be many wins
Where did they get that Russia and the clubs RPL Will it destroy new rivals? We have seen Karpin’s games against weak Asian teams, it was tough. European rivals have been studied for decades, learned from them. Asian clubs and national teams play differently, unpredictably, like Japan and Saudi Arabia world Cup. There is often a purely monetary motivation, so the conditional Hulk can knock out a real Spartak for a car from a sheikh.
Clubs from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar and Uzbekistan are more dangerous than it seems. Obviously the teams RPL he will not be in the eastern region, he will not meet strong Japanese and South Koreans until the final of the AFC Champions League. But how will fans from St. Petersburg and Moscow react if they fly to the other end of the world and lose to a stranger from Iraq? In Asia there is no analogue of the Europa League to fly and earn additionally.
Fedun’s phrase that treatment is better than death is meaningless if migraine is removed by cutting off the head. Who said that Russian football, as part of European sports, needed treatment, got sick with something? Russian fans are firmly integrated into European competitions, they watch matches from the best leagues. The Russians went to the matches of their favorite and native clubs not in Africa.
Take away people’s motivation – take a swamp. And in this swamp above the clubs RPL Al-Hilal, Al-Nasr and Istiklol will try to mock. It’s important for Asians to beat local clubs Uefa for self-affirmation. Also think about the children, because they will outlive the elderly. All young Russians dream of hearing the anthem of the European Champions League. Russian footballers were the first in history to win the European championship, not the Asian one.
Instead of a road to nowhere, they could put things in order at home. As usual, they are in a hurry – an application must be submitted before the beginning of January, so that it will be considered for six months. We do not exclude that in fifa and AFK will be saved from rewriting history, because they can say they don’t see any point in the transition RFS extension. A productive break with the reforms of their own football is better than leaving for the East, and five years after the realization that they have killed RPL and rolled to the defeat of Qatar.
