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By Tzvi Machlin As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, UEFA and FIFA have sanctioned the Russia national football team to keep them from competing in next week’s World Cup qualifying game against Poland. So Russia have tried to get an arbiter to help lift the ban. The Russian Football Union (RUF) made an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for an urgent interim ruling to freeze the ban pending a full appeal. But on Friday, their request was dismissed, per ESPN. The ruling comes after CAS similarly dismissed the RUF’s appeal to freeze their ban from UEFA competitions. As a…