Do you think that Argentina should be banned from the World Cup?
That banner breaks several FIFA regulations: political neutrality, discrimination, stadium code of conduct, equipment regulations.
What's more, it's pure nationalist propaganda without any historical basis. The Falklands were discovered by the English and never belonged once to Argentina. France briefly colonised one of the islands of the archipelago in 1764 (East Falkland), which it ceded to Spain in 1767. Spain lost that lone island to Britain four years later. Argentina became independent from Spain in 1816.
When a South Korean player held up a political sign about his country's territorial dispute with Japan at the 2012 Olympics, FIFA decided to suspend him for two matches.
French players were not even allowed by FIFA to wear a black armband as a sign of respect for their manager Didier Deschamp’s mum dying.
Argentine players have just been brainwashed by Milei's nationalist propaganda and are doing his bidding on the world stage in front of billions of people. They are essentially promoting another war with the United Kingdom. They already declared war on the UK over the Falklands in 1982 without casus belli and lost that war.
It's no better than Trump claiming that Greenland should belong to the US. It's the same level of nonsense. Imagine the international reaction if the US team had brandished banners saying 'Greenland belongs to the United States'.
Football teams who use the World Cup as a stage to promote hatred and try to trigger wars should be banned from FIFA. I also think that each player should be held individually responsible and sued in front of an international court for their behaviour. An example needs to be set.
Argentina itself should be banned from the FIFA, which means this World Cup and all future World Cups, until they publicly apologise and promise never to behave in this manner again.
That banner breaks several FIFA regulations: political neutrality, discrimination, stadium code of conduct, equipment regulations.
What's more, it's pure nationalist propaganda without any historical basis. The Falklands were discovered by the English and never belonged once to Argentina. France briefly colonised one of the islands of the archipelago in 1764 (East Falkland), which it ceded to Spain in 1767. Spain lost that lone island to Britain four years later. Argentina became independent from Spain in 1816.
When a South Korean player held up a political sign about his country's territorial dispute with Japan at the 2012 Olympics, FIFA decided to suspend him for two matches.
French players were not even allowed by FIFA to wear a black armband as a sign of respect for their manager Didier Deschamp’s mum dying.
Argentine players have just been brainwashed by Milei's nationalist propaganda and are doing his bidding on the world stage in front of billions of people. They are essentially promoting another war with the United Kingdom. They already declared war on the UK over the Falklands in 1982 without casus belli and lost that war.
It's no better than Trump claiming that Greenland should belong to the US. It's the same level of nonsense. Imagine the international reaction if the US team had brandished banners saying 'Greenland belongs to the United States'.
Football teams who use the World Cup as a stage to promote hatred and try to trigger wars should be banned from FIFA. I also think that each player should be held individually responsible and sued in front of an international court for their behaviour. An example needs to be set.
Argentina itself should be banned from the FIFA, which means this World Cup and all future World Cups, until they publicly apologise and promise never to behave in this manner again.
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