UEFA ready to exclude Israel from competitions: the voice comes from England and also upsets the world round of Italy. Here’s what can happen
The rumor comes from England and was relaunched by The Times: UEFA is ready to exclude Israel and its teams from European football competitionsa ban that would affect the Federation of Tel Aviv as a consequence of the war situation in the Gaza Strip. So far they were only rumors from Israeli source. Now to take the field is the prestigious British newspaper that tells how the majority of the members of the UEFA executive committee decided for the announcement that would place Israel on the same plan of Russia.
The moment of truth would fall next week and the exclusion would concern both the national team (major and youth) and the club teams that compete in the events organized by Nyon. To make the members of the Executive Committee change their mindwho in the past had excluded the hypothesis of the announcement, It would have been the publication of the conclusions of the work of a United Nations Investigation Commission who accused Israel of Genocide in Gaza.
The president of UEFA, Aleksandr Ceferin, in recent weeks had reported a difference in position between Israel and Russia and according to some journalistic reconstructions it had been reached by requests to ban the Israelis both by several European clubs and from Qatar, in particular after the missile attack in Doha.
In mid -August, on the occasion of the final of the European Super Cup played in Udine between PSG and Tottenham, UEFA had taken a position making a banner display on the game ground “Stop Killing Children, Stop Killing Civilians”.
The possible exclusion of Israel would change the picture of the race at the 2026 world championship in the group of Italy. Not in the facts since the ranking of the grouping seems consolidated with the blues very far from Norway, but already in front of Israel who was beaten 5-4 in the last trip to the land of Hungary.
The choice of UEFA would not win Fifa even if it would actually close the doors of the World Cup to the Tel Aviv Federation. Not without political repercussions considering that the review is held in the United States of Trump, a great ally of Israel. That it would hardly have qualified, but which it except for politically more.
