It was the most logical thing and UEFA has confirmed: Belgium – Sweden will not resume. Last Monday, the European football body suspended the match at half-time, when it emerged that two Swedish fans were murdered in the streets of Brussels by an Islamist terrorist. Fear invaded the stands of a packed King Baudouin stadium; Football stopped mattering while an armed man wreaked chaos in the streets of the Belgian capital.
The man, a 45-year-old Tunisian, was killed by Belgian police after a long night of searching, but, as UEFA has officially stated, “the Executive Committee took note that it had proven impossible to play the remaining part of the match the following day.” . Both the Royal Belgian Football Federation and the Swedish Football Federation, given the circumstances, explicitly expressed their desire not to play the remaining time of the match and to consider the result definitive at half-time (1-1). The result of this match does not affect the Group F classification, as Belgium is already mathematically qualified for the UEFA EURO 2024 finals (along with Austria) and Sweden is mathematically eliminated. The respective matches do not allow the use of any date in the next international window in November, when the preliminary group stage of the competition must conclude, which will be followed by the draw for the play-offs and the draw for the final phase of the tournament. Both national teams, of course, receive one point.
No international matches will be played in Israel
In the same statement, UEFA informs that, due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, no match in any UEFA competition will be played on Israeli soil “until further notice.”
Likewise, apart from the Israeli team, they will not be able to compete in their usual stadiums on Maccabi Haifa (Europa League) and the Maccabi de Tel-Aviv (Conference). «The Israeli Football Federation and its clubs Maccabi Haifa FC and Maccabi Tel-Aviv have been requested to propose alternative venues/stadiums (which must comply with all applicable UEFA regulations) outside the territory of Israel for their home matches. , and that will be used while this decision remains in force,” the statement closes.
2023-10-19 13:15:29
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