Players ‘abandoned’ over rainbow armbands in Qatar, says Deschamps

Didier Deschamps

France coach Didier Deschamps told a French National Assembly committee on Thursday that the national team had been "abandoned" over the issue of rainbow armbands at last year's World Cup in Qatar.

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There was discussion before the competition over wearing "One Love" armbands as a protest because homosexual activity is illegal in Qatar, but the organisers and world football's governing body FIFA warned players not to.

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"We were abandoned before this World Cup because the responsibility belongs to the authorities, and so it became the free decision of each and every individual," Deschamps told a committee looking at "operational failures within sports federations".

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