By Richard van Poortvliet
March 11 – In what is now becoming a football version of an old-style East-West Cold War, deputies from the Russian State Duma, from the United Russia and Fair Russia parties, have asked for FIFA to revoke the membership of the USA.
Aleksandr Sidyakin and Mikhail Markelov have written an official letter to world football’s governing body, asking for the USA men’s football team to be disqualified from the 2014 World Cup and for their membership of the organisation to be terminated.
The letter cites the USA’s aggressive actions against Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya as well as their attempts to encroach on Syria, as the reasons for asking for the US to be banned.
Aleksandr Sidyakin said that this letter was a reaction to the letter sent by Republican senators, Mark Kirk of Illionois and Dan Coates of Indiana, who asked FIFA to ban Russia from the 2014 World Cup.
“It’s an eye for an eye, a ball for a ball. Don’t let the USA take part in the 2014 World Cup! End their membership of FIFA”, Sidyakin wrote on his twitter page.
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