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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Bagor: I agree but players just love playing for the countries too much. They fear (realistically or not) that their federations can boot them off the team or the federations themselves can be suspended by FIFA. FIFA has suspended federations for things as simple as using an ineligible player in a youth tournament.
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Absolutely wrong to just assume that players just love playing for their countries too much.
Let's take Ronaldo and Messi as an example. You think the Portugese and Argentinian FA are going to ban them or anyone else for that matter for taking a stance against Slavery. The optics would be terrible. You think there would be no backlash? From fans and players? Punishing someone for speaking out against such a matter? Same for FIFA. Whose side do you think the public and players would take? A lot of noise is created. Then you have the big corporations involved.