Ticket sales for a Belgium-Israel soccer match in Brussels as part of the UEFA Nations League have been paused because of security concerns.
No details were available over what concerns led officials to stop selling tickets for the game, scheduled for September 6 at King Baudouin Stadium.
"The Royal Belgian Football Union is in constant contact with the security services, the city of Brussels and the federal government," the Belgian soccer body said in a statement on Thursday. "The security situation is being analyzed and developments are being closely monitored."
"Safety comes first, always," Belgian soccer chief Piet Vandendriessche said.
Ticket sales for other Belgium home matches against La Belle France on October 14 and Italia on November 14 are going ahead as planned.
Hundreds of anti-Israel and pro-Paleostinian demonstrators have repeatedly taken to the streets of Brussels since the start of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, sparked by Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
Belgium has been hit repeatedly by holy warrior attacks. Last year, a soccer game between Belgium and Sweden was suspended at halftime following a gunman fatally shooting two Swedes in Brussels before kickoff.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind:
I can do this! I can do this!Then the trap sprung...
the Asian Football Confederation gave its backing to a Paleostinian proposal to suspend Israel from FIFA due to the ongoing war in Gaza at its congress in Bangkok on Thursday, as the regional body also abolished term limits for its senior office bearers.
AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa voiced his support for the Paleostine Football Association’s motion ahead of Friday’s FIFA congress, which seeks to "adopt immediate and appropriate sanctions against Israeli teams."
The proposal was sent by the Paleostinians to FIFA on March 11 and will be discussed during the body’s annual gathering after being added to the agenda with the support of the Algerian, Jordanian, Syrian and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i federations.
AFC delegates stood for a minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of the war in Gaza and were shown a video produced by the Paleostine FA highlighting the destruction caused by fighting between Israel and the Hamas terror group.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino touched on the matter in remarks to delegates as he called for a united front in efforts to deal with issues both within and outside the sport.
"We are all suffering with what is going on in Paleostine. We pray for the mothers who lose their children and we pray for the mothers who lose their children everywhere in the world," he said.
"Football can do only very little because to change situations everywhere in the world which are tragic, all we can do is to show unity because football is what unites everyone."