FIFA threaten to exclude Spain from 2018 World Cup due to government interference

[Tehranto]

Potentially big news, needs its own thread

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FIFA threaten to exclude Spain from 2018 World Cup due to government interference
The country's sports tribunal's plan for a re-election in the federation counts as government interference

https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/fifa-threaten-exclude-spain-2018-world-cup-government-interference-spanish-federation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sportskeeda

[Ata]

will never happen

[Tehranto]

will never happen

Yeah, chances are slim, but still interesting development.

[BacheLot]

fat chance of that, fifa is good at just threatening on such matters..!

[Leicester City]

None of these countries are ever going to be excluded from WC. I see them being posted on Reddit all the time.

[Nokhodi]

They would only ban Iran for such a thing... not China or Saudi or Spain...

[sarbaz]

Could that really happen ??????

[eerooni]

Even if it doesnt happen its good to demoralize them before the WC. Put pressure and create stress, Giving underdogs a better chance!

[DireStraits]

You mean there can be a chance we go to next round?

[Gotham]

Guys it WON'T happen. FIFA is just doing this to discourage Spain from government interference... they'll lose a lot of money by excluding Spain so don't get your hopes up.

[saeed_noro]

even if they do it, we will get Italy instead of Spain because they were in their group and became second. but this will never happen. Fifa just want to know what happened, but not threatened to kick them out..

[ehsan singapore]

i think the goverment interfrense is due to catalonia, however fifa can ban spain and order spain to fix the problem, if the problem is not fixed would be ban, but i dont think spain will make this kind of mistakes

[Iranianarsenal11]

even if they do it, we will get Italy instead of Spain because they were in their group and became second. but this will never happen. Fifa just want to know what happened, but not threatened to kick them out..

Well Italy is even worse than Portugal so we'd have a better chance, but theres no way in living hell that would happen. Zilch. Zero.

Iran has a better chance of winning every game 3-0 and winning the world cup than Spain to get kicked out