“They don’t really believe in God”: Belarusians are outraged that Lithuanians refuse to play football

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First Vice-President of the Union of Belarusian Football Federation Andrei Vasilevich in an interview odds.ru He stated that he did not understand the decision of the Lithuanian national team to refuse to participate in the World Beach Soccer Championship.

According to him, the Belarusian team was fully ready to host the match.

“They refused and that was it. The government banned them. Let God or time decide the rest. Apparently they don’t really believe in God,” the official said.

The match between the national teams of Lithuania and Belarus was supposed to be played in Spain on October 9. According to the draw results of the 1/8 final of the world championship qualifying round, the teams became rivals.

However, such a decision was not the first for the Lithuanian Federation. In March 2024, the president of the organization announced that the country’s women’s national football team intends to refuse to play two matches of the 2025 European Championship qualifying tournament against their Belarusian opponents. Lithuania emphasized that they were ready for sanctions, including two technical defeats in these fights.

Previously coach Sergei Kiryakov spoke Media League team versus national team match.

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