LINK World Cup teams ditch plans to wear rainbow armbands after FIFA threats
Seven European World Cup teams have abandoned plans to wear rainbow "one love" armbands in a show of inclusion and anti-discrimination after FIFA threatened that players who did so would face sporting sanctions, the soccer associations said in a joint statement Monday.
Driving the news: The captains of England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Wales had previously voiced their intent to wear the anti-discrimination armbands during their matches at the World Cup in Qatar. ...
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We won't have to worry about the hate much longer. Earth has set a course and soccer won't be part of it.
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Maybe that’s why they are having it in the heat hell of Qatar : preparing for the future.
Well yeah, the longer we change our ways to let climate change continue, the more likely it is that the climate will change to the point where it is no longer a place that support human life anymore.
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