Shakhtar Donetk accuses FIFA of not supporting Ukrainian football – the Ukrainian weekly newspaper

Shakhtar Donezk's managing director Serhii Palkin has accused FIFA (the International Government Association of Football) in the three years since Russia's full scale of not supporting Ukrainian football.

The domestic league of Ukraine played after a first six -month break, but with limited resources, the long -term future is quite uncertain. Palkin claims that the world of the management committee has ignored inquiries about dialogue and support. He repeated earlier requests for means to receive a sport that suffered greatly from the continuing war against Russia against Ukraine. He continued to ask FIFA and UEFA (Europe's leadership committee of football) to continue to ban Russian teams from international competitions in an increasingly dangerous geopolitical atmosphere.

Palkin referred to FIFA's motto of being a family and found that since the beginning of the war with Russia FIFA has not supported Ukrainian football and has not considered the Ukraine part of her family. He called for FIFA for financial support to support the repairing damaged infrastructure and to expand sport in Ukraine. Palkin expressed his frustration that he has not been able to communicate FIFA in the past three years.

In 2022, Shakhtar asked for 54,300,000 US dollars of FIFA damage replacement of 54,300,000 US dollars after the management committee had decided that foreign actors in Ukraine could suspend their contracts based on the invasion in which the Ukrainian associations of the transmission fees were withdrawn. Shakhtar finally lost his case with the arbitration court for sport.

In February 2024, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Andriy Shevchenko, the Ukrainian football ager and promised to support the continued football growth on and next to the square in Ukraine. In March 2022, the FIFA Foundation prepared 1 million US dollars for the delivery of humanitarian deliveries to Ukraine.

Shakhtar Donetsk has been forced since 2014 due to a war that started in the region more than a decade ago. Three years ago, FIFA and UEFA acted quickly to prevent Russian pages from playing in their competitions. With a changing international climate and a unsuitable US administration, which is hostile to Ukraine, Palkin emphasized the need to keep the border.

Infantino has put his close relationship with President Donald Trump on display, while the President of the Russian Football Union and the member of the Executive Committee of the UEFA Executive Committee, Alexander Dyukov, said that his country could be admitted to the world champion qualification that begins on March 21. Palkin said that this cannot happen while the war continues.

Palkin said he didn't think FIFA or UEFA would change its current attitude towards Russian clubs that take part in European competitions. He also sees no danger in the relationship between FIFA and the Trump government in relation to Ukrainian football and says that he doesn't understand how the relationship could be worse and it doesn't get better.

Sumachanka wins Euro Field Hockey Indoor Cup

The Ukrainian Club MSC SumChanka, based in the city of Sumy, Ukraine, won its first title and was the first Ukrainian club to win the Euro Hockey Club Cup for women, the leading hockey club tournament of the continent for women organized by the European Hockey Spring. The 33rd edition of the tournament took place on February 14th to 16th in Siauliai, Lithuania. Eight club teams, who took part in two pools of four teams.

SumChanka defeated the Dutch Professional Club SCHC 2-0 in a shot after the game ended in a 2-2 draw. After the Ukrainian club lost its first game in Pool B Play 3-1 against SchC, it resigned with 10-2 and 4: 3 victories to win a place in the semi-finals. Then exclude Mannheimer 3-0 before you prevailed in the final.

Karyna Leonova from SumChanka was the tournament's top scorer with 10 goals and teammate Kateryna Popova added four goals.

SumChanka achieved the previous success at the Euro Indoor Club Cup and took second place in 2009 and 2015, 2020 and 2024.

(Based on the reporting by the Guardian.)

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