{"id":1747171,"date":"2022-11-21T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747171"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:32:54","slug":"world-cup-teams-back-down-on-rainbow-armbands-after-fifa-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-cup-teams-back-down-on-rainbow-armbands-after-fifa-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Teams Back Down On Rainbow Armbands After FIFA Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworld-cup-teams-back-down-on-rainbow-armbands-after-fifa-threats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>European World Cup teams backed down on Monday from wearing rainbow LGBTQ armbands during their games in Qatar after FIFA threatened to penalize players if they did so.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement from the Football Associations of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, the teams announced the captains would not be wearing \u201cOneLove\u201d armbands during the games, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/11\/21\/world-cup-one-love-armbands-yellow-cards\/\">Washington Post<\/a> reported. The change comes after the teams said the world soccer organization notified them that it would \u201cimpose sporting sanctions if our captains wear the armbands on the field of play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t put our players in a position where they could face sporting sanctions including bookings, so we have asked the captains not to attempt to wear the armbands in FIFA World Cup games,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were prepared to pay fines that would normally apply to breaches of kit regulations and had a strong commitment to wearing the armband,\u201d it added. \u201cHowever, we cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very frustrated by the FIFA decision which we believe is unprecedented,\u201d the joint statement continued. \u201cOur players and\u00a0coaches are disappointed \u2013 they are strong\u00a0supporters of inclusion and will show support in other\u00a0ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: England and Wales won\u2019t wear One Love armbands <\/p>\n<p>\u201cwe cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ySojM4Jas\">pic.twitter.com\/6ySojM4Jas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Harris (@RobHarris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobHarris\/status\/1594628547951431681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While FIFA announced the ban for the armband on the field, the outlet noted that during the England-Iran game, Alex Scott, an English sports pundit who formerly played for the England women\u2019s team, was spotted wearing the rainbow armband on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>American soccer writer Grant Wahl tweeted on Monday that security stopped him from entering the stadium to watch the USA vs. Wales game because he was wearing a shirt with a rainbow on it, the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m OK, but that was an unnecessary ordeal. Am in the media center, still wearing my shirt. Was detained for nearly half an hour. Go gays \ud83c\udf08 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3INBoCz89\">https:\/\/t.co\/S3INBoCz89<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Subscribe to GrantWahl.com (@GrantWahl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantWahl\/status\/1594733272143200258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m OK, but that was an unnecessary ordeal,\u201d Wahl wrote. \u201cAm in the media center, still wearing my shirt. Was detained for nearly half an hour. Go gays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qatar has been called out for human rights violations and its stance on gay people, where it remains illegal to be homosexual. As recently as this month, the Qatar World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman called homosexuality \u201cdamage in the mind,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-entertainment-soccer-sports-qatar-ed44b144cd5f1373a6d09efd7f979d0f\">Associated Press<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-mens-soccer-team-redesigns-red-white-and-blue-crest-with-rainbow-colors\">U.S. Men\u2019s Soccer Team Redesigns Red, White And Blue Crest With Rainbow Colors<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European World Cup teams backed down on Monday from wearing rainbow LGBTQ armbands during their games in Qatar after FIFA threatened to penalize players if they did so. In a joint statement from the Football Associations of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, the teams announced the captains would not be wearing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1747174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}