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UEFA's president said allowing Russia's U17s team back was to stop punishing children for decisions taken by adults.

Football player Ianis Hagi, named official ambassador of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, believes that Romania has a generation full of...

Budapest and Bucharest get unexpected moment in Champions League spotlight

Russia giving up top FIFA seat, targets new UEFA position By GRAHAM DUNBARJanuary 14, 2021 GMT FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, July 1, 2017, Alexey Sorokin, Local Organising Committee CEO of Russia 2018 World Cup, speaks during a news conference at the St. Petersburg Stadium, Russia. On Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, Russia is giving up its place on FIFA’s ruling council while proposing its soccer federation president Sorokin as a candidate to join UEFA’s executive committee. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, FILE) FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, July 1, 2017, Alexey Sorokin, Local...

Football racism no black and white issue in central Europe 261 BUCHAREST, Dec 12, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – As the dust still rises on football’s night of racist accusations in Paris, the battlelines are being drawn in Romania, home of the fourth official whose use of the word “negru” prompted a player walk-off during Basaksehir’s Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain. While some believe that Sebastian Coltescu and the comments he made were the product of linguistic misunderstanding, others feel that it is simply emblematic of a society riddled with racism and homophobia. This i...