Less than a week away the World Cup being held in Qatar will commence, with Team USA openly against Wales as their first opponent. However, the team’s management has decided to alter the official logo to stand in solidarity with the LGTBQIA+ community, replacing the traditional red, white, and blue with rainbow colors instead.
Our rainbow badge has an important and consistent role in the identity of US Soccer. As part of our approach for any match or event, we include rainbow branding to support and embrace the LGBTQ community, as well as to promote a spirit of inclusiveness and welcoming to all fans across the globe.
As a result, locations that we will manage and operate at the Fifa World Cup, such as the team hotel, media areas and parties, will feature both traditional and rainbow US Soccer branding.
A spokesperson said
The Independent reported that head coach Gregg Berhalter has also vowed to make sure their stances are made known and heard:
I think that when we are on the world stage and [we’re in] Qatar, it’s important to bring awareness to these issues, and that’s what Be the Change is about.
It’s not just stateside that we want to bring attention to social issues. It’s also abroad. We recognize that Qatar has made strides and there has been a ton of progress, but there’s still some work to do.
Be the Change basically represents everyone’s individual opportunity to make change and to have change start with them. So I think it’s appropriate that we have that here as well.
Berhalter said while referencing the team’s own specific campaign, that began back back in November 2020 to support social justice protests.
Some have chimed in on social media praising the move.
The Daily Mail however indicated that these new crests are now expected to be worn on the jerseys, but presented during practice, lockers, and press conferences.
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Qatar is mostly Islamic with the second largest religion being Hindu – a nation that has laws that discriminate LGTBQIA+ attraction and representation; drawing ire from some teams and players years before this year’s World Cup.
Recently the committee in Qatar put out a message that partly stated:
Please, let’s now focus on the football! [Do] not allow football to be dragged into every ideological or political battle that exists.
We know football does not live in a vacuum and we are equally aware that there are many challenges and difficulties of a political nature all around the world.
At Fifa, we try to respect all opinions and beliefs, without handing out moral lessons to the rest of the world. One of the great strengths of the world is indeed its very diversity, and if inclusion means anything, it means having respect for that diversity.
No one people or culture or nation is ‘better’ than any other. This principle is the very foundation stone of mutual respect and non-discrimination. And this is also one of the core values of football.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino and secretary general Fatma Samoura wrote in a statement to the competing 32 teams
Eight team captains from some European teams will reportedly be wearing heart-shaped armbands to represent an anti-discrimination movement.
Other English teams have vocally expressed their disdain for FIFA’s statement to keep things about football and not politics.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 3:9
First women’s soccer – with scumbuckets like Megan Rapinoe and others – and now the “men” are doing it too…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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they’re asking for their own death; Qatar will not tolerate homosexuality.
Bingo! Execution, torture, and forced castration are the punishments given for sodomy. Even Muslims as satanic and Catholic as they are, have better morals than the western world.
I’ve never been a football fan – soccer football or American football, all it is is a golden calf and bread and circuses, and unrepentant idolatry and I won’t have any part of it.
There’s professing christians that not only obsess over their game, but modulate their “sermons” after the super bowl. Well, I guess if I have to show someone the truth, I’ll wear a football helmet then maybe they’ll pay attention to me (sarcasm.)
I wonder what disasters will be coming in the not too distant future.
They are a pack of mentally disturbed rainbow sissy’s full of pride.They are proud to support the sodomite nation.I bet that prideful countenance will fall when the Lord leaves them desolate.I’ll be so happy when the day comes no more hearing or seeing Sodom and Gomorrah it will be like it never existed.
I also was never that big into sports. Sure, I occasionally played a round or so of the ball games on the Playstation 2 era games (2000-2007), but it was so rare that it’d be a game once every two or three months. That’s for basketball, football, baseball, ect.
Nascar was somewhat of an exception to the rule as I liked all the decals on the cars and running around trying to time my passes and drafting was fun, but even then I wasn’t obsessed with the sport. I’d run a few 12 minute races a day, one, maybe two days during a week, with week long breaks in between, and I might buy two or three of the die-cast cars a year.
Even so, nowadays I can’t stand these sports what with the manner of people these athletes tend to be. They are always getting up to idiotic stunts, rumors of pedos running among, the foul language, (especially among many of today’s Nascar drivers,) the cheating scandals, the support of the LGBT+ community, and so much more.
And don’t get me started on the sports video games of today. They are filled with grievous gambling-like micro-transactions, so much so that it is commonly reported of gets getting their parents credit-card and racking up $20,000 in debt trying to get their favorite character. Many of the racing games are also just as bad, though from what I’ve heard the modern Nascar games were a lot better.
Ultimately the micro-transactions don’t matter to me as much as in a personal manner as I’ve been weening myself off video games as of late, mostly because I’d rather read and or listen to the Bible and good bible sermons than waste time with childish entertainment. Even so, the idea of this happening in video games that are supposed to be designed for child friendliness is very grievous to me. What the actual sports organizations and athletes get up to these days are even more grievous.