MOSCOW, February 26, Andrey Mikhailov. Teams of Russia and Serbia for football players with disabilities, a match will be held in Moscow on the eve of a friendly match of the main national teams, the Russian Football Union (RFU) reported.
The Russian national team will play a friendly match with the Serbian team on March 21 in Moscow at the Dynamo stadium. This game will be the first for the Russian team against a team from Europe since November 2021.
“”The national teams of Russia and Serbia will play not one, but two matches in Moscow. On the eve of the meeting of the first teams, teams for football players with disabilities in category B-1 (blind football players) will play in the Russian capital. Moreover, this will be the first for the Russian national team international game of this kind. The head of the project office of sustainable development and social responsibility of the RFU, Alexey Smertin, and the secretary general of the Paralympic Committee of Serbia, Bojan Jacimovic, agreed on holding the match in Belgrade,” the RFU reported.
“”This is an unusual sport, there is very little competition in it, and we are creating it not only for our guys, but also for the Serbs. Moreover, this is a friendly country! As part of our inclusive project, we invited them It will be a good match,” Smertin noted.
The International Football Federation (FIFA) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) published a joint statement in February 2022, according to which Russian national teams and clubs were suspended from participation in international competitions due to the events in Ukraine. In total, after the sanctions began, the Russian national team played 11 friendly matches (four wins, six draws, one defeat).
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