Here is what you need to know about the 'OneLove' armbands that the captains of seven European teams were planning to wear at the Nov. 20-Dec. 18 World Cup in Qatar:
* The 'OneLove' armbands were originally launched in 2020 as part of an inclusiveness campaign by the Royal Dutch Football Association .
* The design features a rainbow flag in the shape of a heart with a number one in the middle, surrounded by the text "One Love" on either side and the words "football connects" in cursive below.* The captains from England, Wales, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark wereWHAT IS QATAR'S RECORD ON LGBT RIGHTS?
* Less than two weeks before the finals, Khalid Salman, a Qatar World Cup ambassador and former international,German broadcaster ZDF that homosexuality was "damage in the mind", adding that anyone coming to Qatar should "accept our rules here".
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