{"id":11307,"date":"2022-03-02T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=198758"},"modified":"2022-03-02T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:22:10","slug":"ea-sports-initiates-banning-all-russian-teams-from-fifa-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/ea-sports-initiates-banning-all-russian-teams-from-fifa-22\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Sports initiates banning all Russian teams from FIFA 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Russian club and the Russian national team will be banned from FIFA 22. EA has stated that the Russian national football team, as well as all Russian clubs, would be stripped from FIFA 22, FIFA Mobile, and FIFA Online.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came only days just after real-life FIFA and UEFA regulatory bodies announced that Russia\u2019s national team and players will be suspended until further notice. Due to Russia\u2019s escalating invasion of Ukraine, FIFA has \u201cinitiated processes\u201d to remove the teams, as per a statement made on its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEA Sports stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and like so many voices across the world of football, calls for peace and an end to the invasion of Ukraine,\u201d the statement goes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A statement from EA SPORTS FIFA: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v3pZvpblgS\">pic.twitter.com\/v3pZvpblgS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EA SPORTS FC (@EASPORTSFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EASPORTSFC\/status\/1499057030857777154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another announcement was released on the main NHL 22 account, claiming that Russian and Belarusian teams would be excluded. They will be removing all Russian and Belarusian national and club teams from NHL 22 within the coming weeks, following the IIHF\u2019s ban of all Russian and Belarusian national and club teams from IIHF events.<\/p>\n<p>Several sporting authorities have barred Russian sportsmen from competing, or have relocated matches and tournaments to other countries. National teams and sides have also declined to compete against Russia till further notice, mainly in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>This week, UEFA and FIFA suspended Russian teams from across all international football after relocating the Champions League final from Saint Petersburg, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Russian clubs and the Russian national team will be expelled from FIFA 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2267,2982,2819,3197,3116,178,48],"class_list":["post-11307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ea-sports","tag-fifa-2022","tag-nhl","tag-russia-attacks","tag-russia-ukraine","tag-uefa","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307","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=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}