Tiktukno: summary of today's events in sports, 21.11 (Sport1)
The opening game of Group B in the World Cup will bring together England and Iran today (Monday), for a meeting that is much more than football, but the dramas started even before the opening whistle.
After much deliberation and fear of sanctions, Harry Kane decided not to go onto the pitch with a captain's armband in the colors of pride and the inscription "One Love", in a clear protest against the treatment of the LGBT community in Qatar. FIFA made it clear that any captain who did so would receive a yellow card, which also caused England return to it from the original plan.
But not only England.
FIFA's pressure also overruled the other national teams: like Kane, the captains of Germany, Wales, Switzerland and Denmark will also give up the act of protest, which, as the Dutch national team has already announced, Virgil van Dijk will do. Therefore, no national team will take to the field With a captain's ribbon in the colors of pride.
"FIFA has made it very clear to us that it will apply sanctions if the captains show up with protest ribbons," said some of the national teams in a joint statement. These films in the World Cup games.
We would be willing to pay the usual fines for violating dress codes, but we are not prepared for the possibility of being ticketed, or even suspended.
We are very frustrated by FIFA's decision, which is unprecedented. We wrote to FIFA already in September, and we have not received an answer.
The players and coaches are disappointed.
We will continue to show our support in other ways."
yielded to the pressures.
Kane (Photo: Reuters)
A protest that England is expected to make is kneeling before the opening whistle, as they have done in most of their previous games, as a message against racism and injustice in the world.
Now it remains to be seen whether the Iranian players will choose not to sing the anthem, in direct continuation of the hijab protest that has agitated the country in recent months and brought hundreds of thousands to the streets demanding the liberation of the people from the dark rule of the Revolutionary Guards.
The second round games in the second group will be held on Friday.
Wales will play against Iran at 12:00, the United States will meet England at 21:00.
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