MANAMA : Saudi Arabia football chief Yasser Almisehal said the possibility of Russia switching to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) would come only after exhaustive examination of the implications. FIFA and UEFA banned Russian teams from all competitions after the invasion of Ukraine last February an
MANAMA : Saudi Arabia football chief Yasser Almisehal said the possibility of Russia switching to the Asian Football Confederation would come only after exhaustive examination of the implications.
The notion was given a boost when the Olympic Council of Asia said last week that athletes from Russia and Belarus could use its qualifying events for the Paris 2024 Summer Games if they are excluded from European competition. "In recent years we've not seen such a transaction so it would take a lot of deep studying to evaluate whether it makes sense to do that, if it becomes a real request."
Former Soviet republic Kazakhstan left the AFC in 2000 to become a full member of UEFA two years later, while Australia made the switch to Asia from Oceania in 2006.
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