In the wake of the storm of the Captain movies: Denmark plans to lead a mass retirement from Pip
| Ricardo Setion, ambassador to Qatar
The president of the Danish Federation (DBU), Jesper Muller, announced yesterday (Wednesday) that Denmark is considering leaving FIFA, and is already ready to negotiate with the other 55 member countries of UEFA, which includes the founders of FIFA, in favor of a joint departure of the highest entity in football, who is accused of corruption and bias of events surrounding the World Cup.
Denmark, England, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Wales and Switzerland are the seven European teams that planned to wear captain’s armbands emblazoned with the phrase “One Love” with the Pride flag, but had to backtrack after FIFA issued an order with an explicit threat to ban the wearing of armbands with A political statement in the contest.
Denmark’s confederation delegation expressed its “disappointment and anger” at the way FIFA threatened to impose sporting sanctions on the seven captains who planned to wear the armband in the color of the Pride flag, the same armband worn by most of the captains at this summer’s Women’s Euro.
Denmark has decided not to officially support FIFA President Gianni Infantino in his renewed bid for the presidency of the organization in 2023. This follows the World Cup scandals, primarily the controversy over the captain’s films.
Even if Denmark does not leave FIFA, the situation is clear: very few people are happy with this World Cup and the ways in which things are decided by FIFA businessmen.
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