The challenge that was attributed to
Manuel Neuer
was not fulfilled.
He did not wear the rainbow bracelet when he stepped onto the pitch of the Khalifa Stadium in Doha to face Japan.
However, the FIFA ban had caused great discomfort within the German team, something that the players showed when they lined up before the initial whistle on the band,
by all covering their mouths, in protest at violating freedom of expression
.
Not allowing the LGTBI bracelet, something that FIFA admitted to congratulate the Qatari authorities, is a way of preventing that right.
Joshua Kimmich
himself
, one of the most important footballers in the German dressing room, admitted it the day before the game: "I think the issue of the bracelet has been frivolized. Now I feel it as something very important."
The same happened in the concentration of the Netherlands, but finally
Van Dijk
did not show any bracelet in the debut against Senegal.
Neither did the England captain,
Harry Kane
, who had been willing to do so, even against the instructions of his national federation.
The ban came after
Gianni Infantino
, FIFA president, assured that there would be tolerance for the LGTBI community during the World Cup, despite the fact that the laws of the emirate punish homosexuality with up to seven years in prison.
The gesture of the German team joins that of the Iran team
, which did not sing their country's anthem, although for another reason, that of the situation in their country as a result of the death of a woman for not wearing the veil as established by the Islamist norms.
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