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 | | Russians and Ukrainians will not meet in the Europe League20.03.2015 |
UEFA has announced long ago that for the draw for the semi finals in the Europa League will not have any restrictions in the definition of the four couples. And although there can be placed and still not put up by the European football power plant is the one additional rule.
From there, announced on its official website, shortly after became clear to all participants of this phase that will ban after the draw against each other to face off against Ukrainian and Russian teams.
Two Ukrainian reached the quarterfinals: Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Dynamo Kiev, as well as a Russian-Zenit St. Petersburg. The draw will be drawn by 14:00 CET in Nyon.
The reason for the divergence of the teams from the two countries was linked to tensions between them and the conflict that was fought in Eastern Ukraine. UEFA has a practice to split teams from two different affected in conflict countries to reinforce differences on political grounds.
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