Ukraine great Shevchenko is not elected to UEFA ruling committee as Russia cedes place

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Ukraine large Andrii Shevchenko failed to triumph predetermination to the UEFA enforcement committee connected Thursday, the time Russia formally ceded its spot connected the decision-making assemblage of European soccer.

Shevchenko, the erstwhile AC Milan prima and 2004 Ballon d'Or winner, got conscionable 15 votes from the 55 nationalist federations arsenic 1 of 5 candidates for 2 vacant seats done 2027 connected the UEFA ruling committee.

Those 2 seats were antecedently held by officials elected from Ukraine and Spain — Shevchenko’s predecessor starring the nationalist federation, Andrii Pavelko, and disgraced erstwhile UEFA vice president Luis Rubiales.

Though Spain retained its seat, with Rafael Louzán getting 32 votes, Ukraine’s aged spot went to Israel, whose federation president Moshe Zuares got 31 votes.

At the 2024 UEFA legislature successful Paris, Ukraine was among a fistful of subordinate federations who did not afloat enactment a ballot allowing UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin to widen his clip successful bureau to 2027.

Russia mislaid its spot connected the 22-member UEFA ExCo due to the fact that its astir elder shot official, Alexander Dyukov, the main enforcement of Russian lipid steadfast Gazprom Neft, did not basal arsenic a campaigner to clasp his spot for the adjacent 4 years.

A cardinal pending contented for UEFA is erstwhile and however to reintegrate Russia teams into planetary competitions and extremity a prohibition imposed wrong days of the subject penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.

In 2022, UEFA and FIFA successfully argued astatine the Court of Arbitration for Sport that continuing to fto Russian teams play would invitation chaos successful their competitions erstwhile immoderate countries successful Europe refused to play opponents from the country.

Before the voting connected Thursday, FIFA President Gianni Infantino told European shot officials successful a keynote code helium hoped Russia would soon beryllium backmost successful planetary soccer.

“Because this would mean that everything is solved” with bid successful the war, Infantino said.

In a abstracted predetermination for UEFA ExCo seats with four-year mandates, candidates from Estonia and Armenia won.

UEFA besides present has a 2nd pistillate connected the ruling committee, electing Norwegian shot president Lise Klaveness by acclamation to a caller spot protected for pistillate candidates.

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