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

Russia may be banned from meaningful competitions and pariahs across much of the world over the war in Ukraine, but its national football team is not struggling too much to find willing opponents. In ...

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

“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 ...

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?

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.