You cannot say politics has no place in football. We have international football which is made up of the teams from political state entities. What happened when the war broke Yugoslavia up? Did Yugoslavia carry on in footballing terms? Of course not..
Domestic football is made up of leagues involving teams from within the same political entity.
The only place this doesn't happen is the UK because of some chicanery that went on many years ago in a bid to attract Britain into the world footballing community...and thankfully so
I love it when our vast political differences bring us all closer together on the forum.