October 9 – Danish FA (DBU) president and UEFA executive committee member Jesper Møller Pictured) remains under pressure after the Danish governing body reiterated that Danish national teams will not play Russia and Danish children will not play Russian children.
Following UEFA’s decision to readmit U-17 teams from Russia to European competition, Møller’s position in Denmark has come under scrutiny as he has repeatedly failed to disclose whether he backed the readmission or not.
It is understood that Møller voted yes, defying the position of his own governing body and country. On Friday, however, at a board meeting, the Danish FA again categorically stated that it opposes opening a pathway for Russian underage teams.
Contradicting a UEFA statement, the DBU chairman has insisted that no final decision on Russian readmission has been taken, with another UEFA executive committee meeting slated for later this week. On the agenda is the approval of the re-entry of the Russian U-17 national teams.
Møller first doubled down in a statement last week arguing that the DBU supports both the international sanctions against Russia as well as the general observance of international conventions on the protection of children, referring to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
His new-found knowledge of the UN Convention aside, Møller has been asked by his board to vote no on all things Russia and demand that Alexander Dyukov be removed from the UEFA executive committee, according to Danish media.
Last spring, Møller won a convincing re-election for the executive committee at the UEFA Congress in Portugal. Running an invisible campaign, he claimed 42 votes. Only Albania’s Armand Duka got more votes.
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