This is news expected since the start of the conflict in Ukraine and which should delight foreign players playing in Russia.
According to the New York Times, the main players' union FIFPro will win its case with Fifa.
After having demanded in a letter supported by various European leagues, the exceptional authorization to let foreign players leave Russia and permanently, Fifa will grant this right but temporarily.
Indeed, players will be forced to return to the other side of the Urals from July 1.
A press release to this effect should be announced in the coming hours.
Via @tariqpanja: FIFA plans to allow foreign players at Russian clubs to break their contracts and move to new teams.
But it will insist they return after June 30. https://t.co/zL5ryng30Q
— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) March 7, 2022
This decision concerns more than a hundred players, in particular the former resident of Ligue 1, Malcom, currently at the Zénith Saint-Petersburg.
A Russian club, FK Krasnodar had already preceded Fifa by allowing all its foreign staff to leave the club.
German coach Daniel Farke left while the players continued to evolve with their team this weekend, during their 2-1 victory against Ural.
In addition, the decision to exclude Russia from the World Cup could be called into question.
The Russians arguing, during the appeal of the decision of the international federation before the CAS, that it has no legal legitimacy to exclude the quarter-finalist selection from the last World Cup of the competition.
Fifa will respond with an argument concerning the safety of World Cup participants.
Russia was supposed to play its play-off against Poland on March 24.
