Hours before the armbands were due to be worn in defiance of the local laws, FIFA made an unprecedented threat to issue a yellow card to any captain wearing the symbol.
made an unprecedented threat to issue a yellow card to any captain wearing the symbol. Two yellows for a player would see them ejected from the game, and so a group of teams announced Monday that they would no longer risk making the statement of support.
The associations added that they would have been happy to “pay fines that would normally apply to breaches of kit regulations,” but they would not put their players in a position where they could be “forced to leave the field of play.”
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