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Germany players go over mouths at Entire world Cup in FIFA protest

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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Germany’s players coated their mouths for the team image before their opening World Cup match on Wednesday to protest from FIFA adhering to the governing body’s clampdown on the “One Love” armband.

The Germany crew lined up in the regular formation in advance of its game against Japan and all 11 gamers lined their mouths with their suitable palms in a coordinated gesture.

“It was a sign from the team, from us, that FIFA is muzzling us,” Germany coach Hansi Flick reported just after the match, which his team missing 2-1.

The gesture was a reaction to FIFA’s productive nixing of 7 European teams’ programs to use armbands that ended up viewed as a rebuke to host nation Qatar and its human legal rights report.

Workforce captains, which includes Germany captain Manuel Neuer, had prepared to have on the armband with the heart-formed, multicolored emblem, a symbol for inclusion and diversity. But the seven federations backed down just after FIFA made it very clear they would experience implications if they did not.

“We may possibly have our bands taken absent from us, but we’ll under no circumstances permit our voices be taken from us,” Neuer claimed. “We stand for human legal rights. That’s what we wanted to clearly show. We may perhaps have been silenced by FIFA regarding the captain’s armbands, but we constantly stand for our values.”

Neuer mentioned the idea for the mouth-covering gesture came from the crew.

“We truly wished to do anything and we considered about what we could do,” Neuer claimed. “It was very clear that we required to deliver a sign.”

FIFA stated Germany will not deal with disciplinary motion for the gesture.

In opposition to Japan, Neuer wore an armband with the FIFA-authorized “No Discrimination” slogan, though it was

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2022 FIFA World Cup predictions, picks, odds: Experts predict Spain, Germany and Belgium to win

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After an incredible and unexpected Day 3 of the 2022 World Cup with Argentina losing 2-1 to Saudi Arabia and underdogs Tunisia drawing to Denmark, we now head into Day 4 of the most important soccer competition of the world. 

Morocco and Croatia will face each other in the first match, while later in the day we are treated to Germany’s debut against Japan to launch Group E, followed by Spain and Costa Rica in the same group. The last match of the day will see Belgium against a Canada team making its return to the World Cup for the first time since 1986. 

Let’s look at how the CBS Sports staff sees the day going — and while you’re at it, sign up for our new newsletter covering the beautiful game in all its glory, including daily updates about the World Cup, here.

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Group F: Morocco vs. Croatia

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 23 | Time: 5 a.m. ET | Location: Lusail Stadium — Lusail, Qatar
TV: FS1 and Telemundo | Live stream: fuboTV (Try for free)
What to know: The outcome of this match should tell us who is one of the top candidates to go through past the group stage, with Belgium and Canada clashing later on the day. Croatia’s best-ever finish in the competition was in Russia four years ago when they made it all the way to the final, only to lose 4-2 to eventual champions France. Luka Modric, the heart and soul of that team, will likely begin his last World Cup campaign. You can bet he wants to leave his mark in

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Germany vs. Japan final score: Another massive World Cup upset as Samurai Blue stun Germans with late goals

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For the second World Cup in a row Germany began their campaign in disastrous fashion, frittering away a first half lead to lose 2-1 to Spain. Suddenly, the champions of 2014 face the very realistic prospect of a second straight exit at the group stage, a self-inflicted crisis that was as much about disastrous defensive work as it was the excellence of match winner Takuma Asano.

Every metric would point to Germany having been a vastly superior side for the 75 minutes before Ritsu Doan fired Japan back to parity, but the sense was of a profligate team who lacked a killer instinct at one end and composure at the other. Japan showed both in abundance and although there is plenty of work to be done in escaping a group that includes Spain and Costa Rica they are superbly placed to do so. Unlike Hansi Flick’s side they do not look like a team liable to give anywhere near as many easy chances away as their opponents do.

At the outset, Japan might have seen precious little of the ball in the first half but they showed an impressive sense for hunting down possession. Daizen Maeda could have sent this game down a very different path in the seventh minute but, after fine work from the Japanese midfield to pick the pocket of a dawdling Ilkay Gundogan, the Celtic striker made his move too soon to slot in past Manuel Neuer.

Those half openings came Japan’s way more than once in the early exchanges, as did ever-expanding spells of German possession. Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich would drift from

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