In sporting wilderness, Crimea team seeks fixtures (Reuters)

By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW (Reuters) - Crimea, caught in a sporting limbo after Russia annexed it from Ukraine, is to field a national soccer team in a tournament it plans to host next year, but its only likely opponents are statelets without international recognition. Before the 2014 annexation, Crimea's clubs competed in the Ukrainian league and its players, if they were good enough, turned out for Ukraine's national team.