The DFB-Elf demonstratively covered their mouths immediately before the start of the World Cup game against Japan on Wednesday.

The team sent a signal to the world football association FIFA at the Khalifa International Stadium in al-Rayyan.

He had previously banned the "One Love" captain's armband from Manuel Neuer and six other European team captains in Qatar.

Neuer and Co. threatened sanctions such as a yellow card if they wore the armband.

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Instead, the German team's captain chose to wear the FIFA-mandated "No Discrimination" armband to stand against discrimination of any kind.

The DFB took a position on the team picture on the short message service Twitter.

The DFB wanted to wear the "One Love" armband and set an example for values ​​"that we live in the national team: diversity and mutual respect".

You wanted to be loud together with other nations.

It's not about a political message.

“Human rights are non-negotiable.

That should go without saying.

But unfortunately it's still not," wrote the DFB.

The message is always important to the DFB team.

Banning the bandage “is like banning the mouth.

Our stance stands.”

This photo "looks like little at first", but will go around the world and have a "big effect", wrote a user on Twitter.

But some users think the campaign is not enough and would have liked the team to wear the "One Love" bandage.

Others ridiculed the silent protest and wrote, for example, that the team "could not play 100% because of collective toothache".

Or criticized the action: “1.

Shut up 2. heard the way and 3. misjudged the reality”.

Others, on the other hand, see it as a good middle ground “Playing along between the rules as far as it has to be and protesting as far as possible”.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser also protested from the audience.

She demonstratively wore the "One Love" bandage.

She followed the game together with DFB President Bernd Neuendorf.

She received a lot of praise online for her protest.

One user wrote: "A woman with balls" and one user said appreciatively: "My interior minister".

Some find: "A great sign from her and that from a woman between the sheikhs and men".