Gagging mouths: the powerful protest of the German national team against FIFA - Voila! World Cup

Tiktukno: Summary of today's events in sports, 11.23 (Sport1)

The players of the German national team today (Wednesday) expressed their protest against FIFA in a great way when they covered their mouths during the team photo before the opening whistle of the match against Japan. This is Germany's first game in the 2022 World Cup and the protest is against the background of FIFA's threats to punish them and the captain Manuel Neuer if he wears a captain's armband that includes the colors of pride and/or the phrase OneLove.

The official Twitter of the German national team reads: "We wanted to use the captain's film to show the values ​​on which we are based in the German national team - diversity and mutual respect. Along with other countries, we wanted our voice to be heard. There was no aim to express a political position - human rights are not subject to negotiation, and that's why The message was so important to us. Preventing us from going up with the captain's ribbon is the same as preventing us from making our voice heard. We are fortifying our positions."

A report surfaced today in several European media outlets that the Danish Football Association is considering a move to withdraw from FIFA along with several other European national teams, against the background of the difficult disagreements regarding freedom of expression and the bans during the World Cup.

Nice protest.

Germany's players today (Photo: Reuters)

Summary of events: The captains of seven European teams, Germany, Holland, Denmark, England, Wales, Belgium and Switzerland, intended to go to matches in Qatar with ribbons in the colors of pride and the inscription OneLove - against the background of the fact that in Qatar homosexuality is illegal and football fans from the LGBT community were warned not to express Affection when they arrive at the World Cup. In recent days, more and more stories have been spread about fans who arrived with details of clothing in the colors of pride and were not allowed to enter the stadiums in Qatar.

FIFA stood on the back foot and announced that they would not allow this.

When they realized that the football associations insist on expressing a position and the majority of the players support this, FIFA took one step further and threatened to fine the associations and punish the captains with yellow cards even before the opening whistles of the games. will be punished.

The German association also announced that it intends to turn to CAS - the High Court of Appeals for Sports - in order to fight back and possibly have time to wear the captain's armband in question until the end of the games in Qatar.

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