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For being a Russia ally the European country of Belarus has been hit with a sanction by FIFA.
On Thursday, UEFA in a statement stated that Belarussian clubs and national teams competing on the continent would play their home games on neutral grounds following the Russia -Ukraine crisis.
Authoritarian Belarus and Russia are closely linked and Belarus has been used as a key staging ground for the invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.
The decision follows Russia’s expulsion from the World Cup on Monday after FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian clubs and national teams from their competitions “until further notice”.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has admitted there is no timeline for Russia’s readmittance into European football.
“At this moment, impossible to say,” Ceferin said at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit.
“At this moment our decision was the only right decision, a unanimous decision from the executive directors of UEFA. What happens tomorrow, nobody knows.
“I cannot give you an answer. For now it stays like that and we are waiting for peace to come. Football will be the least important thing then.”