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The OneLove armband promotes diverseness and inclusion - and is simply a awesome aimed astatine lasting up to discrimination| Host nation: Qatar Dates: 20 November-18 December Coverage: Live connected BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app. Day-by-day TV listings - Full sum details |
England, Wales and different European nations are successful talks implicit whether to proceed with their plans for their captains to deterioration a OneLove armband astatine the World Cup successful Qatar.
The captains of 9 nations, including England's Harry Kane and Gareth Bale of Wales, had planned to deterioration the armband to beforehand diverseness and inclusion.
But they person been warned by Fifa officials that wearing the armband would beryllium a breach of its rules and hazard a "sporting sanction" for captains, specified arsenic a booking.
With England owed to footwear disconnected their World Cup run against Iran astatine 13:00 GMT connected Monday, it remains unclear whether the Football Association (FA) volition driblet its plans for Kane to deterioration the armband.
This week, main enforcement Mark Bullingham told BBC Sport that the FA was consenting to instrumentality a fine, but the feeling wrong the governing assemblage is that the imaginable of a booking and suspension has enactment players successful an intolerable position.
On Saturday, Fifa launched its ain armband inaugural successful concern with 3 United Nations agencies.
The armbands volition diagnostic a antithetic societal run passim each round, including #NoDiscrimination, #SaveThePlanet, #ProtectChildren, #EducationForAll and #BeActive.
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The Netherlands began the OneLove run earlier Euro 2020 arsenic a connection against discrimination.
Same-sex relationships and the promotion of same-sex relationships are criminalised successful Qatar.
On Saturday, Fifa president Gianni Infantino accused the West of "hypocrisy" successful its reporting astir Qatar's quality rights record.
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