‘Double standards’: Özil calls on FIFA to treat everyone equally, says Russian teams faced embargo while Israel did not

Former Germany international Mesut Özil has called on FIFA to bring Russia back into world football, saying that the governing body treated Russian teams differently from Israeli ones. Attending a veterans’ match in Istanbul, the 2014 World Cup winner used the occasion to make a statement. “Football has always brought about peace,” Özil said. “As […] The post ‘Double standards’: Özil calls on FIFA to treat everyone equally, says Russian teams faced embargo while Israel did not appeared first on

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