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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>A 2022 World Cup playoff match in Russia is \u201calmost unthinkable\u201d at the moment, the chairman of the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) told Reuters following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sweden are due to face the Czech Republic in a World Cup playoff Group B match on March 24, with the victor meeting the winner of the other group game between Poland and Russia.<\/p>\n

Wins for Sweden and Russia would mean the two sides meeting in Russia on March 29, with a place at the Qatar World Cup at stake.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a possible scenario … spontaneously around the feelings we have as we wake up this morning are that it is almost unthinkable that we in a few weeks would play a football match in Russia,\u201d Karl-Erik Nilsson told Reuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it looks here and now, today, there is absolutely no desire to play a football match in Russia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Nilsson said that he had not been in touch with his contacts in Ukraine following the overnight attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut thoughts go to our friends in Ukraine over the situation they woke up to today, it\u2019s awful. Football should be seen as something of less importance in the middle of this inferno,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The 64-year-old former referee stopped short of demanding that the Russians be kicked out of the World Cup entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that (in these situations) much is called for very quickly \u2014 we will need to live and socialise even in the future, and I think we shouldn\u2019t be too quick with solutions,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, we should take our time and see what actions are needed, For the moment we are looking forward to arms being laid down and that peace and freedom come into existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Swedish football boss said that the desires of the Ukrainians themselves should guide football\u2019s response.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important that the requests come from Ukraine,\u201d Nilsson said. \u201cAt the moment they have a lot more to think about than football, but a future will arrive one day and we mush show solidarity with our football friends around Europe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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