Georginio Wijnaldum is going to show a message pro LGTB in his bracelet

The captain of the selection of Low Countries, Georginio Wijnaldum, lucirá a bracelet with the message "One Love" (a love) to express his support to the lobby LGTB in the party of eighth of final that the "Oranje" will contest next Sunday in Budapest.

"When using this band, we, like "Oranje", want to emphasize that we defend the inclusion and the connection and that are against anyway of exclusion and discrimination. Of this way, expect to support to all the people that feel discriminated in any part of the world", Announced the Dutch midfield player in a communiqué spread by the Federation of football of his country.

The decision has taken afterwards that the directors of the UEFA forbade that the German Federation of Football (DFB) lit with the colours of the flag arcoíris the Allianz Sand. In said stadium contested the party between Germany and Hungary, which corresponded to the last day of the phase of groups of the current edition of the Eurocopa.

You criticise against

The measure of the UEFA has not happened unobserved for anybody, neither neither has remained exenta of criticisms in the world futbolístico. One of these was the defender of the Borussia Dortmund and of the Belgian selection Thomas Meunier, the one who loaded against said entity by his posture.

"We are in the 21st century. The mediaeval ideas already had his time. It is regrettable what is sucediendo with the UEFA in this moment. Those that decide put orejeras. You do not go to change the things putting a poster of 'no to the racism' in the bands of the field. It is necessary to react. I think that many have fear to wet . For me it is necessary to change the things", said the Belgian player, of 29 years in front of the press.

The posture of the UEFA

In a communiqué posteado previously, the directors of the maximum entity of the football of Europe, explained the causes for said measure: "The UEFA, through his statutes, is a political organisation and religiosamente neutral. Given the political context of this specific application - a message headed to a decision taken by the Hungarian national parliament - the UEFA has to refuse this application", cleared.

However, this does not seem to have convinced to those who criticised the posture of the directors. Afterwards of this, the UEFA painted with an arcoíris his logo in his social networks and explained said change in a communiqué. "It is a symbol that represents our values, that promotes all that in what we believe - a juster society, egalitarian, tolerante, without mattering the origins, beliefs or gender (…) For the UEFA, the arcoíris is not a political symbol, yes a sample of our firm commitment for a more diverse society and inclusiva".