Tiktukno: Summary of today's events in sports, 11.21 (Sport1)
The opening game of Group B in the World Cup today (Monday) brings together England and Iran, for a meeting that is much more than football, but the dramas started even before the opening whistle.
As expected, the players of the Iranian national team joined the protests against the Ayatollah Police in the country and did not sing the national anthem before the start.
In addition, shrill boos were heard from the tens of thousands of Iranian fans in the stands at the sound of their own national anthem, as part of the protest.
On the English side, after much deliberation and fear of sanctions, Harry Kane decided not to go onto the field 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 does so will receive a yellow card, which which also caused England to 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.
yielded to the pressures.
Kane (Photo: Reuters)
"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."
A protest that England did make was kneeling before the opening whistle, as they had done in most of their previous games, as a message against racism and injustice in the world.
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