Denmark will wear team jerseys at the World Cup that protest the human rights record of host nation Qatar, with a black option unveiled Wednesday to honor migrant workers who died during construction work for the tournament.
“The color of mourning,” kit manufacturer Hummel said in a post on Instagram releasing the black third-choice design.
Though FIFA's World Cup rules prohibit political statements on team uniform, the three Denmark shirt designs in all-red, all-white and all-black appear to comply with no words or symbols that are an explicit statement. The national team badge, Hummel logo and decorative white chevrons -- a famous feature of the Denmark shirt since the 1980s - are faded into the same single color as the shirt.
The Danish federation also joined a European campaign launched last week for captains to wear heart-shaped, multi-colored “One Love” armbands in World Cup games.
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