Lol, this gotta be a troll. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ce8q01d56v7o The Egyptians and Iranians will be forced to play with rainbow armbands, otherwise they will be banned from the World Cup.
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The entire Iranian team will be sentenced to death upon returning home for encouraging homosexual practices
Not sure if this is a joke, but obviously, you're not getting the death penalty for wearing a armband in either Egypt or Iran.
Thank you, FIFA, very based!
That’s kind of funny.
Soccer nerd here. I can clarify. The “pride match” designation isn’t an official designation by FIFA. It’s a designation by the Seattle World Cup organizing committee, which (obviously) is helping with staging the games in Seattle. For practical purposes, this means FIFA won’t make the players wear armbands or assless chaps or anything. There will probably just be ancillary pride events outside the stadium and shit like that, and as a result, the stands will probably see more than their fair share of mentally ill blue-haired trannies, which will be hilarious, because they’ll be alongside a bunch of Persians and Egyptians.
Another fun point to note is that this designation was issued in advance for the game on that specific date in Seattle. The specific matchups that take place in a given city on a given date are determined by semi-random draw, so really this is a gift from the irony gods.
In b4 the media tries to play this as Trump's equivalent to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Can't wait to see the controversy that will arise when they'll refuse to wear the armband. Personally. I'll be in the front seat on Twitter and bluesky
Hmm the problem is, I can believe this institution is THIS retarded to think this is a good idea...
The article does not state this and cites a previous incident of the exact opposite of this.
lol