The controversy with the ‘One Love’ bracelet in the World Cup in Qatar 2022 has reached unsuspected limits.
Seven European teams have condemned FIFA’s threats to the teams whose captains wear the vindictive rainbow heart bracelet during football’s biggest event.
A yellow card a minute into the game is the minimum punishment that the captains would face if they had worn the LGTBIQ+ ribbon on their arm. The countries that were going to use it are the Netherlands, England, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and Wales.
Now, according to the medium The Athletic, Denmark and other federations they analyze the possibility to leave FIFA after the body chaired by Gianni Infantino threatened with sanctions the teams that wore the ‘One Love’ bracelet in Qatar.
“Denmark has revealed that it is ready to discuss a blanket withdrawal from FIFA along with other nations from UEFA amid the ongoing dispute over the #OneLove armbands”, noted the publication.
Jesper Mollerpresident of the Danish Football Association (DBU), revealed today that the DBU open a period of reflection on the subject. They do not rule out leaving FIFA if the organization does not change his radical opposition to the bracelet.
Not only Denmark will ask UEFA to leave FIFA, but this request would be joined other nordic federations. “We have rethought it now. I imagine there may be challenges if Denmark goes off on its own. We have to think about the question of how to restore confidence in FIFA. We must assess what has happened and then we must create a strategyalso with our Nordic colleagues,” Moller said.
