MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. The Russian national football team will play two friendly matches at home in November against Peru and Chile, the Russian Football Union’s (RFU) press office reported on Monday.
The match against Peru is scheduled to be played on November 12 in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg and three days later, on November 15, the Russian side will welcome the national team of Chile on the Black Sea southern city of Sochi.
The world’s governing football body, FIFA, announced on February 28, 2022, that the Russian national team and all professional clubs representing the country were barred from participating in FIFA tournaments.
In turn, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) made a similar decision regarding the Russian national football team’s participation in UEFA tournaments.
Both FIFA and UEFA cited Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine as grounds for their respective bans on Russian teams’ participation in competitions.
