US President Donald Trump has said that he would not watch the NFL and NBA if the players did not stand out of respect for national peace.
Last week, the American Football Association abandoned its demand for players to stand during national peace and said that its policy was wrong and detracting from the life of blacks movement is important.
Al-Ittihad pursued this policy in 2017 when Megan Rapino, the American women's team player, played during the National Peace in solidarity with Colin Kapernick, the former American football player who died before a match in 2016 to draw attention to racial discrimination.
"I will not watch more (matches)," Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday evening in response to a Republican lawmaker Matt Gates report.
"It appears that the NFL is moving in the same direction, but I will not watch the matches," the US president added.
NFL Commissioner Roger Godel said this month the tournament made a mistake by not listening to players and denouncing racism in the country in the midst of protests against police violence against blacks.
The problem came to the fore again last month after the murder of George Floyd, a defenseless black man who died in the custody of the Minneapolis police after a white policeman knelt on his neck for several minutes.
Trump has previously criticized the players who perished during the National Peace and wrote on Twitter in the past that the NFL players who did this "do not respect our country or our flag."