Date | 2022 |
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Location | International, largely in the United Kingdom |
Cause | Human rights violations in Qatar |
Motive | Human rights, LGBT and diversity |
OneLove is an anti-discrimination and human rights campaign that invites football players to wear rainbow-colored armbands. It was famous at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Associations were warned players would be suspended for wearing OneLove armbands in Qatar.[8] England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands said together they would not do so.[9]
Harry Kane to wear 'One Love' armband at World Cup in anti-discrimination gesture
World Cup teams abandon OneLove armband amid FIFA row
The captains of several European teams will not wear "OneLove" armbands at the World Cup in Qatar due to the danger of receiving yellow cards.
Competing nations previously planning to wear a 'One Love' armband at the World Cup have told their captains not to attempt to do so for fear of sporting sanctions, a joint statement has said.
The climbdown came just hours before England's Harry Kane, the Netherlands' Virgil van Dijk and Wales' Gareth Bale were due to wear the "OneLove" armbands in Monday's group-stage games.
England, Wales and other European nations will not wear the OneLove armband at the World Cup in Qatar because of the threat of players getting yellow cards.
England, Wales and five other European nations have backed down from wearing the OneLove armband that was intended as a protest at all forms of discrimination at the World Cup in Qatar.