As Russia remain suspended by Fifa, the Palestine Association has proposed a suspension of Israel, with the global game ...

The Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) believes allowing Russia to return to international football would “ignore the suffering of thousands of Ukrainians” and have called for their ...

Chijoke Anyiagboso, a 20-year-old Nigerian footballer, was in bed in a room at the five-star Bristol Hotel in Odesa, a ...

Since being banned from competitive football after invading Ukraine, Russia have largely faced sympathetic countries in friendlies. Increasingly, African sides are answering the call. Why is that?

“Moves are currently happening to get Russia back into football,” one senior source tells The Independent. There are elevated football figures who would “have them back tomorrow”. While ...

More senior figures have loftier ideas about football being used to bring peace, which Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin spoke about when discussing the return of Russian youth sides.