7 World Cup teams have abandoned plans to wear rainbow 'one love' armbands in a show of anti-discrimination after FIFA threatened sporting sanctions — including automatic yellow cards — for doing so.
The captains of England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Wales had previously voiced their intent to wear the anti-discrimination armbands during their matches at the World Cup in Qatar.
FIFA informed the teams of the associated sanctions, which would include automatic yellow cards, on Sunday, per the"FIFA has been very clear that it will impose sporting sanctions if our captains wear the armbands on the field of play," the joint statement read. "We were prepared to pay fines that would normally apply to breaches of kit regulations and had a strong commitment to wearing the armband. However, we cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play," it said.
"We are very frustrated by the FIFA decision which we believe is unprecedented — we wrote to FIFA in September informingto actively support inclusion in football, and had no response." "Our players and coaches are disappointed — they are strong supporters of inclusion and will show support in other ways.""But we remain with the belief that football is for everyone and stand with our LGBTQ+ members of the Welsh football family," it added.
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