FIFA expressed hope for a quick return of Russian football to the international stage

Secretary General and Executive Vice-President of the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) Elkhan Mammadov also Director of European Member Associations International Football Federation (FIFA), wished the Russian Football Union (RFU) a speedy resolution of the situation with international sanctions.

– Considering the current situation, on behalf of FIFA, I wish the fastest resolution of the situation and that we will see Russian football on the international stage in the near future.

On behalf of FIFA, I would like to express my gratitude for the close cooperation during the pandemic. You can talk about it in the past, these two years were not easy for football, but you managed to continue football. At FIFA, we have consolidated our strengths with UEFA and other confederations and federations. And everywhere, football continued. It makes us happy,” Mammadov said at the RFU conference, which takes place in Moscow on Saturday.

– I would like to greet you from FIFA, send you the best wishes from FIFA President Gianni Infantino and General Secretary Fatma Samoura. On behalf of all my colleagues, I express my gratitude for the World Cup, which was organized at the highest level here with colleagues from FIFA. We all remember the World Cup, it was a great event. All this left a very pleasant impression.

I would like to talk about the legacy program that FIFA runs in each country. It is in an active phase, I am sure it will be implemented and create a good legacy. The RFU took over most of this work. I would like to point out that the RFU is involved in various FIFA projects,” he added.

Source : MatchTV

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