Saint Petersburg – And it’s just been confirmed that the Champions League final in May will be moved from St. Petersburg, Russia, and held instead in Paris following what is happening here (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine). We were just waiting to hear where it was going to be and it is going to be in Paris.
Yeah, weren’t even expecting to know where it’s going to be today. But they have moved very quickly. The UEFA for the executive committee. It was an emergency meeting that starts at nine o’clock this morning. And they have announced that are going to move to Paris.
We imagine the start to France, which has got 81,000 are just overcapacity. Moving that showcase file, the Champions League final, which was due to be played in St. Petersburg at the Gazprom arena and you wait for coming under all sorts of pressure now to distance themselves from Gazprom, one of their main sponsors, they give them 33 million pounds per season, a huge sponsor of European football.
What will they do now? Will they walk away from that? Big Questions for FIFA today as well, regarding Russia, and the World Cup and the World Cup playoffs, they’re still in them. They’re due to play Poland, in Moscow at the end of March, Poland does not want to play that match in Russia.
Sweden and the Czech Republic or in their group, and they do not want to play any of the matches in Russia and FIFA has a letter from those three countries saying what are you going to do? We don’t want to play those matches in Russia. So FIFA thinking on that right now wondering what is going to be their next move.
Also, this affects Scotland as well. They are due to play the Ukraine event playoff match that is in Scotland, but Ukraine football is in lockdown at the moment. It’s been suspended as of yesterday, as you’d imagine. So will that match? Go ahead that seems to be under threat as well.
And it sort of begs the question as well. You know, we’re about to start the Paralympics, what is going to happen to the Russian Olympic Committee team. They ended the Winter Olympics in disgrace because of the whole valley Eva drugs debacle.
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As of now, that team is still allowed to compete and it does make you wonder what else Russia needs to do to get kicked out of the Olympic movement. But as of now, they are still allowed to compete even though they have broken the Olympic Truce with this Russia’s invasion.
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