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A group of the Middle East’s football associations has asked world football chiefs to ban Israel over the war on Hamas in Gaza, according to a letter seen by Sky News.
But the Israeli Football Association has urged FIFA to keep politics out of sport and allow them to continue trying to qualify for the men’s European Championship this summer.
UEFA general secretary, Theodore Theodoridis, said today that the European governing body’s administration has had “no such discussion or such intention” to exclude Israeli…