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FIFA Crushes Plan to Show Pro-LGBTQ Message at Qatar World Cup

European football teams have been pressured to remove the armbands in solidarity with the LGBTQ community that will be worn at matches at Qatar World Cup.

Rainbow colored “OneLove” armbands were worn by some captains as a message of inclusion and equality throughout the tournament.

LGBTQ rights have been at the center of a wave of criticism against the 2010 decision to allow the conservative Muslim nation of Qatar to host the world’s most-watched sporting event. Homosexuality can be punished by the country’s secular courts with a life sentence, while the country’s Sharia courts can impose the death penalty for same-sex sex between people. man. Earlier this month, an Official Ambassador of the FIFA Qatar World Cup described homosexuality as a “hurt in the mind” in an interview.

A few hours before the armband had to be worn in defiance of local laws, FIFA issued the unprecedented threat of yellow carding to any captain wearing this emblem. Two yellow cards to a player will get them out of the game, and so a group of teams announced on Monday that they would no longer risk making a statement of support.

“FIFA has made it very clear that they will impose sporting sanctions if our captain wears the armband on the field of play. As a national federation, we cannot put our players in a position where they could face sporting sanctions including penalty cards, so we have asked captains do not attempt to wear the armband during FIFA World Cup matches,” said a joint statement from the Football Associations of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The associations added that they would be happy to “pay the fines normally applicable to dress code violations”, but they would not put their players in a position where they could was “forced to leave the field of play”.

“We are deeply disappointed by FIFA’s decision, which we believe to be unprecedented — we wrote to FIFA in September to inform them of our desire to captain One Love to actively support for inclusion in football, but received no response,” the statement added.

Wales captain Gareth Bale was scheduled to wear the armband in his opening match against the US national football team on Monday, the day after the game. Mass shooting in LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs 5 dead and 25 injured.

England captain Harry Kane will be the first to wear the armband in his nation’s opening match against Iran earlier in the day. England manager Gareth Southgate confirmed over the weekend that his players would still kneel before each World Cup match as a separate anti-discrimination message.

International human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have criticized Qatar’s treatment of LGBTQ people and FIFA’s willingness to ignore the issue in awarding the tournament. Football’s highest rating. Individuals promoting the Qatar World Cup have also been protested. On Sunday, British comedian Joe Lycett live autoplay threw around $11,800 in the shredder to protest soccer star David Beckham’s promotion of the league after years of public support for the LGBT community.

The tournament took place at Al Bayt Stadium on Sunday night, with Qartar’s 0-2 loss to Ecuador making them the first hosts in World Cup history to lose their opening match.




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