The England captain, Harry Kane, and his Wales counterpart, Gareth Bale, are to defy Fifa by wearing “OneLove” rainbow armbands in their World Cup matches, after the governing body launched its own “social campaign” on the eve of the tournament.
Fifa has asked that all captains wear a different armband on each match day, promoting social messages such as “Football unites the world”, “Share the meal” and “Bring the moves”. The decision was announced months after a number of countries approached Fifa asking to wear rainbow armbands in Qatar as a gesture against discrimination and in support of LGBTQ+ rights.
They received no response to their request, with England and Wales both surprised by Fifa’s last-minute initiative on Saturday. But both FAs have reaffirmed their intention to wear the rainbow armbands, with the likely prospect that they will be fined for doing so...
..During Saturday’s press conference in Doha, Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, was asked why the governing body had not publicly supported the rainbow armbands, and launched its own campaign instead.
“We have clear regulations on armbands,” Infantino replied. “We have and engage in campaigns on different topics, campaigns which are universal. We need to find topics that everyone can adhere to. This is an important element for us.”
France striker Karim Benzema has been ruled out of the World Cup after suffering an injury to his left thigh during training on Saturday in Doha, sources told ESPN.
You have to put scores for each game and it gives you the betting odds. It will also ask you to pick a winner, golden boot winner and who will make the semi finals. It’s five points for choosing the right score, three for the correct margin and one for right winner but wrong score and margin.
Hopefully we get a lot of participants!
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I would absolutely love it if Ecuador decided to no-show the opening match to send a message to Qatar and FIFA. Would never happen, but imagine the humiliation world wide if they just sat in their dressing room and then walked out!
Just to touch on this... The Guardian have been doing a team by team rundown, and one of the things they look at is their stance on Qatar. The South Americans (and Mexico) and Africans have no opinion on this stuff, it's footballing business as usual for them.
Just to touch on this... The Guardian have been doing a team by team rundown, and one of the things they look at is their stance on Qatar. The South Americans (and Mexico) and Africans have no opinion on this stuff, it's footballing business as usual for them.
Hm.
That is odd. You'd think that specific demographic would be frothing at the mouth about this.
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You have to put scores for each game and it gives you the betting odds. It will also ask you to pick a winner, golden boot winner and who will make the semi finals. It’s five points for choosing the right score, three for the correct margin and one for right winner but wrong score and margin.
Hopefully we get a lot of participants!
Can you predict scores for the matches the day of or have to get them all in before tournament starts?
I'm pleased that CMNT are there to play football and are focused on that.
Leave the virtue signaling to others. A rainbow armband will not fix the real issues.
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Can you predict scores for the matches the day of or have to get them all in before tournament starts?
You make predictions a few days ahead. I don’t know the exact cutoff, but I think it’s at kickoff, and after that you can’t alter scores. So, at this point you’re predicting for the first few days and you’ll have to go back in and make more predictions as things move along.
So far there are five of us. People can join late, in case you read this and still want to get in. Missing one game isn’t a big deal!
