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With japan said plenty. seven nations, including england and wales, had wanted their captains to wear these onelove armbands in qatar, a gesture of solidarity with the lgbtq+ community for a tournament held in a country where homosexuality is illegal. but the threat of sporting sanctions from football s world governing body saw them all back down near minutes before england kicked off against iran on monday. harry kane instead wore the fifa approved catch all no discrimination armband. and were all the squad included in discussions around that? i think as a squad we have all had conversations, we all stand for it, we all wanted harry to wear it but i think the decision got out of our hands as a squad and as players. i think it went higher up than that really. onelove did make it onto german arms today. the interior minister sported it in the stands whilst on social media, the germans sent another clear message. ....
Six germans sported rainbow colours on their boots today but it is this one gesture of silence that is proving to be golden. feelings are running high about this, and a german media director described the decision to not wear as a decision between colour and the plate and germany are looking at legal options open to them. onelove say do purely an equipment regulation breach, nothing to do with the laws of a country or rainbow colours what is different is the threat to use sanctions. in the past this has been met byjust a fine and the seven nations say this tougher stance is seen as a moving of the goal posts are put up meanwhile, today fifa opened disciplinary proceedings against ecuador for disciplinary proceedings against ecuadorfor homophobic disciplinary proceedings against ecuador for homophobic chanting by theirfans towards qatar ecuador for homophobic chanting by their fans towards qatar in the opening match so still a lot of work to be done. for germany, the strong message they ....