The captains of soccer teams representing seven European nations in the World Cup will not wear armbands supporting the LGBTQ community in matches after FIFA threatened to punish the players.
"FIFA is an inclusive organization that wants to put football to the benefit of society by supporting good and legitimate causes, but it has to be done within the framework of the competition regulations which are known to everyone," it said in the statement.
"Today, hours before the first game, it has been made clear to us from FIFA that the captain will receive a yellow card if he wears the OneLove captain’s armband," the Royal Dutch Football Association, aka KNVB, said in a statement. , a man convicted in the country of having same-sex sexual relations with another man carries a prison sentence of up to seven years.
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