World Cup teams nix One Love' armbands that were seen as snub to Qatar, which criminalizes homosexuality
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR (AP Sports Writer) DOHA, Qatar (AP)  FIFA's threat of on-field punishment for players forced World Cup teams to back down Monday and abandon a plan for their captains to wear armbands that were seen as a rebuke to host nation Qatar's human rights record.Just hours before the first players wearing the armbands in support of the One Love campaign were set to take the field, the governing body of world soccer warned they would be immediately be shown yellow cards  changing the calculus for the seven European teams, which may have expected to merely be fined.
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