game against Japan<\/a> on Wednesday in protest against FIFA\u2019s armband ban. Meanwhile, Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser,\u00a0wore the OneLove armband as she sat beside FIFA president Gianni Infantino watching the game.<\/p>\nOn the eve of the World Cup, Infantino accused the Western world of “hypocrisy” and of delivering a “one-sided moral lesson” in its reporting about Qatar’s human rights record.<\/p>\n
Article 4 of FIFA\u2019s own statutes state: \u201cDiscrimination of any kind against a country, private person or group of people on account of race, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, disability, religion, political opinion or wealth, birth or sexual orientation is strictly prohibited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FIFA threatened the England soccer team with \u201cmassive sporting sanctions\u201d ahead of its opening game against Iran on Monday if any of its players wore “OneLove” armbands, as planned. Seven soccer federations, from England, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark, had agreed their teams would sport the rainbow bands to protest against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":244940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,82966,16],"tags":[83135,83880,83881],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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