French footballer Paul Pogba and African Amad Dial carried the Palestinian flag in the Thanksgiving round after the match with Fulham (1: 1) in front of the galleries of the partially filled Old Trafford stadium. However, they will not be punished in any way for expressing their political views, neither by the football association nor by the club.
“We have a lot of players from different countries and different cultures. I think we should respect their opinions,” said Manchester coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after the match.
According to the findings of the Athletic daily, the players will not be punished in any way by the English football association FA for expressing their political position. In its statutes, it forbids players from all sorts of messages, including political, but not the hoisting of national flags.
Already on Saturday after the FA Cup final, Wesley Fofana and Hamza Choudhury also supported Palestine at a distance, who also walked around the field with the Palestinian flag.
The situation between Palestine and Israel worsened last week, resulting in a rocket fire. Almost two hundred people have been killed in Palestinian Gaza as a result of the fire on Monday, and Israel has reported ten casualties.
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