The International Football Federation apologized before Ukraine for a video clip that was posted on the organization’s official website wherein Crimea is depicted as Russian territory. This was stated by the head of information policies of the Ukrainian Football Federation Pavlo Ternovy, Champion reports. The film was part of a light show used to display the World Cup 2018 emblem on the Bolshoi Theatre after it was unveiled by Russian cosmonauts on national TV. The video was shown at a time when Fifa and Uefa are jointly mediating deadlocked talks between the Russian and Ukrainian football authorities over the status of Crimea’s clubs. Uefa ruled in August it would not recognise matches played by three Crimean clubs absorbed into the Russian league system. The video angered some Ukrainian commentators. Markiyan Lubkivskiy, who directed Ukraine’s preparations to host Euro 2012 and is now an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian security services, called for legal action in an online post and suggested the video could aid the cause of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. “Lawyers, get ready,” he wrote. “If we don’t react toughly to things like this, then soon nothing will be left of us.” “With the help the president of the UFF Anatoly Konkov, the Ukrainain side managed to receive an exhaustive response from FIFA regarding the misunderstanding surrounding the video clip which was posted on the international football federation’s website. The FIFA apologized to the Ukrainian side for this video clip, which has already been removed from the organization’s official website,” Ternovy reported. According to him, the FIFA also noted that Russian representatives were the ones who developed and produced the video clip.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:18:46 +0000
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