FIFA and UEFA have suspended Russia’s national and club teams from all competitions until further notice due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to a joint statement, the bodies say football is in full solidarity with all the people affected in Ukraine. It added that both Presidents hope that the situation in Ukraine will improve significantly and rapidly so that football can again be a vector for unity and peace.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Premier League side Shakhtar Donetsk said their Brazilian players have left the country safely following the invasion by Russia.
Shakhtar, who are based in the east of the country and have more than a dozen Brazilians in their squad, said the players and their families had arrived in Romania.
Shakhtar added that fellow club Dynamo Kyiv’s foreign players had also left the country. Three Brazilians who play for SK Dnipro-1 crossed the border into Romania on Saturday.
“The evacuation of the players was made possible thanks to the personal assistance of UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, the Ukrainian Football Association President Andrii Pavelko and the Moldovan Football Federation President Leonid Oleinichenko,” Shakhtar said in a statement
