FIFA has rejected US senators' call to ban Russia from 2014 World Cup in response to the Kremlin's position on Ukraine. Senators Dan Coats, R-Indiana, and Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, had sent a letter to requesting the international governing organization for soccer to strip Russia from its right to host the World Cup in 2018 and also ban it from this year's edition of the event which will be hosted by Brazil.FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said that individual teams cannot be banned from a competition because of actions by their parent states. Russia is undertaking a large-scale project of building sports facilities and necessary infrastructure for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.