{"id":1255585,"date":"2022-11-22T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/fifa-directs-belgium-to-remove-the-word-love-from-collar-of\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:40:12","slug":"fifa-directs-belgium-to-remove-the-word-love-from-collar-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/fifa-directs-belgium-to-remove-the-word-love-from-collar-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa directs Belgium to remove the word \u201cLOVE\u201d from collar of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Belgium-away-shirt-LOVE-Fifa-ban-696x418.jpg\"   alt=\"Belgium away jersey\" title=\"Belgium away jersey\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belgium away jersey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fifa has rejected the Belgium soccer team\u2019s away strip because of the word \u201cLove\u201d in the collar combined with a rainbow-coloured trim on the shirt, a spokesperson for the Red Devils said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The design was inspired by the fireworks of Belgian\u2019s famous music festival Tomorrowland and stands for diversity, equality and inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Belgian national team will play with their main red shirt during the first three games\u201d, Belgium spokesperson Stefan Van Loock said, adding that if they get through the first World Cup round in Qatar, the issue will be dealt with then.<\/p>\n<p>If the word \u2018Love\u2019 is removed from the inside of the shirt, the team is allowed to wear it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The away shirts are a new design and were introduced in September. Since then, Belgium played in them in several Uefa Nations League games.<\/p>\n<p>The rejection comes after Fifa threatened to issue yellow cards to any player wearing the multi-coloured \u2018OneLove\u2019 armband which was introduced to support diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian Football Association said earlier on Monday that its captain Eden Hazard will not play wearing the armband.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"r2darQuYHYg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2022 World Cup: Ghana is ready for Portugal \u2013 Otto Addo \u2013 Agokansie - Adom TV News (21-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2darQuYHYg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium away jersey Fifa has rejected the Belgium soccer team\u2019s away strip because of the word \u201cLove\u201d in the collar combined with a rainbow-coloured trim on the shirt, a spokesperson for the Red Devils said on Monday. The design was inspired by the fireworks of Belgian\u2019s famous music festival Tomorrowland and stands for diversity, equality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[9071,29193,720,779,476,6825,1770],"class_list":["post-1255585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-belgium","tag-collar","tag-directs","tag-fifa","tag-love","tag-remove","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}