Another storm in world football during the World Cup.
The Danish Football Association stated today (Wednesday) that it will not support the re-election of Gianni Infantino as FIFA president after the governing body of world football threatened teams that the captains of the national teams who will wear the OneLove armband - with a yellow card.
"There is only one candidate at the moment and we will have to see if there is another candidate, there is still time, but Denmark will not support the current president," he said, "This situation is quite unusual. I am not only disappointed, I am angry. This is my seventh World Cup. It is that the players To have to be warned about something like this is completely unacceptable. We need to respond to that," Mueller added.
Denmark won't support Infantino after armband spat, says FA
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Jacob Jansen, the CEO of the Danish association told about the talks he and his association members had with FIFA officials before the tournament.
Jansen told FIFA chiefs that they intend to wear the armband in support of the LGBT community and other minorities who suffer from a lack of equal rights and have received threats and warnings that they will be severely punished.
"I think if you listen to the speech that Infantino gave at his press conference last Saturday, there were a lot of words, and if you listen between those words, you can also hear him addressing the very criticism that we've been making of him for years," Jensen said.
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