Gianni Infantino has defended Fifa’s stance on the ‘OneLove’ armband at the World Cup by suggesting football matches should be a time for everyone to ‘forget their problems’ rather than create more.Seven European nations competing at the tournament – including England and Wales – planned to wear anti-discrimination armbands during matches but were dissuaded from doing so following the threat of sporting sanctions from Fifa.England captain Harry Kane was due to wear the armband only for the decision to be taken just hours before kick-off in their opening game against Iran that he should no longer do so.It is understood the sanctions could have been harsher than Kane – and other skippers – simply being shown a yellow card for sporting the piece of kit and therefore it was deemed they should avoid such incidents.Instead, Fifa brought forward its own armband campaign which had originally been scheduled to start in the latter stages of the tournament, with Fifa president Infantino calling for the sporting regulations to be upheld. Sbobet
Gianni Infantino has defended Fifa’s stance on the ‘OneLove’ armband at the World Cup by suggesting football matches should be a time for everyone to ‘forget their problems’ rather than create more.Seven European nations competing at the tournament – including England and Wales – planned to wear anti-discrimination armbands during matches but were dissuaded from doing so following the threat of sporting sanctions from Fifa.England captain Harry Kane was due to wear the armband only for the decision to be taken just hours before kick-off in their opening game against Iran that he should no longer do so.It is understood the sanctions could have been harsher than Kane – and other skippers – simply being shown a yellow card for sporting the piece of kit and therefore it was deemed they should avoid such incidents.Instead, Fifa brought forward its own armband campaign which had originally been scheduled to start in the latter stages of the tournament, with Fifa president Infantino calling for the sporting regulations to be upheld. Warcraft