“The UEFA Champions League Executive committee held an extraordinary meeting following the escalation of the current events happening in Europe,” UEFA said in a statement. “The UEFA Executive Committee decided to relocate the final of the 2021-22 UEFA Men’s Champions League from Saint Petersburg to Paris.
UEFA has made a quick move to get a more steady climate for its marquee occasion, as well as communicating a promise to “guarantee the arrangement of salvage for football players and their families in Ukraine who face critical human anguish, obliteration, and uprooting.”
It had been trusted that any conceivable de-acceleration of the circumstance could see the match stay in Saint Petersburg, yet UEFA’s hand has been constrained by the full-scale Russian attack which occurred on Thursday.
