““This is a shame”: the miners were accused of FIFA of the absence of Ukraine’s support on February 22, 13:41 Share: Sergey Palkin (photo: FC Shakhtar) Shakhtar CEO Sergey Palkin believes that FIFA does not support Ukraine after the full -scale invasion of Russia. Read also: Shakhtar organized a trip to a marathon to Tokyo. 13-year-old Yana Stepanenko, who has lost her feet through Russia, will raise money for prostheses for Azov “from the beginning [повномасштабної]”, – Write On: ua.news
Sergey Palkin (Photo: Shakhtar FC)
Shakhtar CEO Serhiy Palkin believes that FIFA does not support Ukraine after the start of a full -scale invasion of Russia.
Shakhtar organized a trip to a marathon to Tokyo. 13-year-old Yana Stepanenko, who has lost her legs through Russia, will raise money for prostheses for Azovts
“From the beginning [повномасштабної] FIFA wars have never supported Ukrainian football. They always had a slogan that we were one family, but it was not one family. The Ukrainian football was completely forgotten.
It is necessary to create some fund for Ukrainian football, and the main donor should be FIFA. They must support us because we have a lot of destroyed infrastructure and bad economic situation in the industry. It is difficult to survive in these conditions. It is strange that they completely ignore what is happening in Ukraine. For me, this is some shame.
FIFA doors are always closed for us. We have tried to knock on this door for the last three years, but there was no answer at all. I contacted some people at the highest football level, and they also tried to communicate with FIFA, but I don’t feel that we have succeeded. FIFA has ignored Ukraine and our clubs, “Palkin said in a comment to The Guardian.
Recall that with the beginning of a full -scale invasion of UEFA and FIFA, Russian teams and national teams from all competitions under their auspices have been removed.
At the same time, FIFA has created rules that allowed football players in Ukraine without paying compensation to leave their clubs through the war. As a result, Shakhtar then left almost all his legionnaires.
Last year, the propaganda media of the aggressor state reported that in 2023 the Russian Football Union received from FIFA and UEFA on targeted and compensatory programs an amount of about $ 4.3 million.
In 2024, a scandal also emerged when a map of Ukraine without Crimea was shown during the draw of selection for the World Cup in 2026.