{"id":11273,"date":"2022-02-26T16:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=196859"},"modified":"2022-02-26T16:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T11:10:59","slug":"poland-say-no-to-playing-against-russia-in-the-world-cup-qualifying-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/poland-say-no-to-playing-against-russia-in-the-world-cup-qualifying-play-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland say \u2018NO\u2019 to playing against Russia in the World Cup qualifying play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Poland officially announced that they will not participate in their World Cup play-off match against Russia next month.<\/p>\n<p>If Russia defeats Poland, they will play the winner of Sweden v Czech Republic in a one-off showdown five days later to qualify for the Qatar showpiece, but Polish FA president Cezary Kulesza has announced that his side will not be participating in the tournament at all. \u201cNo more words, time to act! Due to the escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine, the Polish national team does not intend to play the play-off match against Russia.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is the only right decision. We are in talks with the Swedish and Czech Republic federations to present a common position to FIFA.\u2019 Kulesza tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No more words, time to act! Due to the escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine the Polish national team does not intend to play the play-off match against Russia. We are in talks with \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea and \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff federations to bring forward a joint statement to FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cezary Kulesza (@Czarek_Kulesza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Czarek_Kulesza\/status\/1497518019567837190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In response to Kulesza\u2019s statement, Robert Lewandowski, the Polish striker who also captains his nation and plays for Germany\u2019s most famed club, Bayern Munich, tweeted that the decision made is right and one can\u2019t imagine playing with \u201d the Russian National Team,\u201d in such circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just one day after the 3 governing bodies of Poland, Sweden, and the Czech Republic issued a unified statement requesting clarification on the Ukraine crisis, as well as rapid offers of \u201calternative options.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of Russia\u2019s military invasion of Ukraine, Poland will not compete in its World Cup qualification play-off match against the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[984,191,2534],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fifa","tag-poland","tag-robert-lewandowski"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}