The Wales soccer federation says it has requested FIFA for readability on stories some Wales followers had been stopped from taking rainbow-coloured hats right into a World Cup stadium.
The Welsh federation mentioned it was concerned in creating the hats for followers to put on in Qatar, beginning in opposition to america on Monday.
Rainbow imagery, an emblem of LGBTQ rights, is controversial in a rustic the place same-sex relations are criminalised.
Followers and a few workers members had been “asked to remove and discard their Rainbow Wall bucket hats before entry to the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium,” the Soccer Affiliation of Wales mentioned in a press release on Tuesday, including it was “extremely disappointed”.
“The (federation) has collated information on these alleged incidents and will be addressing this matter directly with FIFA,” it mentioned.
Former Wales footballer Laura McAllister, a homosexual lady and previous FIFA Council candidate, mentioned she couldn’t get a straight reply about why the hat was not allowed.
“We’re here to live our own values as a nation and with Wales being in the World Cup for the first time in six decades, it’s important to show what our country’s all about, and that is about inclusion and tolerance and diversity,” she mentioned.
