Denmark is wearing black shirts at the World Cup in Qatar to draw attention to the violation of human rights on the Arabian Peninsula. The DFB team does not have that much courage: Instead, it joins a campaign that hardly anyone knows.
Football shirts are probably the most expensive advertising space in the world. Companies pay tens of millions to be present with their logo on a few square centimeters of textile. The jerseys of national teams alone must be free of advertising, the players should represent their country – and nothing else and nobody. This is what the rules of the world football association Fifa want.
A few weeks before the start of the soccer World Cup in Qatar, which begins on November 20, a dispute has broken out as to whether the neutrality requirement must be interpreted strictly or whether jerseys should not be allowed to be a platform for messages.
Source: Stern
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