FIFA rejects Denmark request to put on shirts with human rights message

The Danish Football Association (DBU) stated on Thursday that FIFA had rejected Denmark’s request to coach on the World Cup in shirts with the phrases “human rights for all” on them.

The DBU stated in 2021 that their two coaching equipment sponsors would make method for messages essential of Qatar whereas additionally minimising the variety of journeys to the nation to keep away from industrial actions selling the World Cup hosts’ occasions.

Qatar has come beneath intense strain over its therapy of international employees and restrictive social legal guidelines, main many collaborating groups to lift issues. The nation has denied claims that employees have been exploited. “We have today got a message from FIFA that the training shirts our players were to train in, where it would say ‘human rights for all’ at the stomach (of the shirt), have been rejected due to technical reasons, which is regrettable,” DBU chief government Jakob Jensen advised Ritzau information company.

FIFA declined to remark. Its guidelines stipulate that any group gear should not have any political, non secular or private slogans, statements or pictures.

“We believe the message “human rights for all” is common and never a political name, however one thing everybody can assist,” Jensen stated. FIFA wrote to World Cup groups this month urging them to concentrate on soccer in Qatar and never let the game be dragged into ideological or political points.

Kit producer Hummel stated in September it had toned down the small print on Denmark’s World Cup jerseys and launched a black equipment as a protest towards Qatar’s human rights report forward of the match. Denmark play their first recreation of the World Cup towards Tunisia in Group D on Nov. 22.