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Football matches seem to be a metaphor for real war, they are bursting with meanings and subtexts. It was not the Germans who played with the Poles in 1934, it was the Fuhrer who played with the Marshal, Hitler with Pilsudski, superhumans with half-humans, Aryans with Slavs. In the final of the World Cup that year, it was not the Italians who defeated the Czechoslovakian team, it was Mussolini who defeated Masaryk, fascism defeated democracy. The world understood that de Coubertin's idealism and dream of separating sport from politics were fantasies: Mussolini's World Cup in 1934 and Hitler's Olympics in 1936 left no doubt about it.

This noble Coubertinist concept of sporting idealism from the 19th century is no longer true. FIFA can either turn a blind eye to reality or recognise that in such high-profile cases as the armed annexation of a part of the territory of an independent country, even the most noble intentions (such as the desire to protect Crimean football from death) do not allow it to suppress aggression at its roots.

Sport is not outside politics, and to continue to broadcast this myth over and over again means to blind our eyes and not want to take responsibility.