• panthera_@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    Soccer is a sport. No country should be excluded based on politics including Russia.

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      Why not? Why allow a country committing war crimes to participate on the global sports or entertainment stage like everything is normal?

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      3 hours ago

      International sports events are INTERNATIONAL, if you play so far outside the rules as Israel is doing, you don’t deserve to participate in international events as a country.
      Of course by that standard we shouldn’t have participation from Russia and USA either.