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Senator proposes Falklands claim in the Argentine international sports colors

Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 14:25 UTC
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Taking advantage of the overwhelming triumphant spirit in Argentina, a Tierra del Fuego province elected Senator for the opposition has re-surfaced an initiative referred to the Argentine colors in international sports competitions. Read full article

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  • Cynic

    Is there not a FIFA ban on displaying political slogans on equipment? For which the sponsoring association can be sanctioned.

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Judge Jose

    Good grief, can their actions get any more desperate and embarrassing .

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Steve Potts

    Just one of the reasons such people can be described as Narnian fantasts.

    FIFA and UEFA both take a strict stance when it comes to political statements in football with FIFA repeatedly stating that football should never be used for political messages and that the focus should be on the game itself and nothing else.

    FIFA's position on political messages can be found in Law 4 of the Laws of the Game:

    “Equipment must not have any political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images.”

    “Players must not reveal undergarments that show political, religious, personal slogans, statements or images, or advertising other than the manufacturer's logo.”

    “The team of a player whose basic compulsory equipment has political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images will be sanctioned by the competition organiser or by FIFA ... A player/team of a player who reveals undergarments that show political, religious, personal slogans, statements or images, or advertising other than the manufacturer's logo will be sanctioned by the competition organiser or by FIFA”

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • darragh

    Hey, come on Steve you can't expect the Argentines to follow the rules!!!

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Tænk

    TWIMC...

    FIFA rules clearly state...:
    -;“Players must not reveal undergarments that show political, religious, personal slogans, statements or images, or advertising other than the manufacturer's logo.”

    I say...:
    “Other than the manufacturer's logo.”..., huhhhhhhhh....?
    If me fellow fly-fisherman & climb, Yankee Yvon Chouinard could create an world wide economic empire of sport clothes and goods..., borrowing (for free) our Patagonia name and our stylized Cerro Chaltén silohuette as his manufacturers logo........:

    https://bluequillangler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/patagonia-logo.jpg

    - I can't see the problem with some Argie dago creating a little sports clothes company..., calleding it “”Malvinas” and using the stylized silohuette of them windblown Isles as his manufacturers logo...

    Any imputs....?

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Monkeymagic

    I think its a good idea. It might start a trend, little maps of your countries greatest humiliation.

    Like World Cup stars Argentina could add little symbols for each time they've tried to steal the islands and got kicked off 1832 and 1982.

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • HansNiesund

    > Any imputs....?

    You're already the nutter on the bus of world politics with your endless pleas of victimhood, but if you really want to demean yourselves further, then by all means find a dodgy stratagem to take it to the world of sport too.

    Dec 23rd, 2022 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • FitzRoy

    Aside from dragging politics into sport, what purpose would it serve? No Argentine team would get away with it on the international platform, so it would just be yet another tool to indoctrinate and brainwash the semi-literate of Argentina.

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Brasileiro

    When the AFA officially launches the new shirt, I would like to have one with MESSI's number 10 on it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxE64F8Ug6I

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • darragh

    Bra

    Wouldn't get confused for 10 Downing Street would it?

    You know, the place where Margaret Thatcher coordinated the handing of Argentina's arses to them on a plate

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Margareth Thatcher? Downing street shirt?

    I don't want to wear English arrogance. If three thousand English already pose a huge problem for us in South America.....

    No Margareth, No Militia Anglo! (laughs)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUd-_WkFd7I&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=24

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 02:47 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • darragh

    Bra

    I Don't know who these 3,000 English are but if they represent a 'huge problem' for South America it just demonstrates what a cowardly bunch of armpits you are

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Monkeymagic

    Its funny that 300,000 French in French Guiana is ok but 3000 British on the Falklands is a “huge problem”.

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Argentine_Cityzen

    Love it, we all want that new tshirt

    Dec 24th, 2022 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Health, peace and prosperity!

    FELIZ NATAL

    Dec 25th, 2022 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Argentine_Cityzen

    @Monkeymagic the french didint evicted any population there at guaiana

    Dec 29th, 2022 - 01:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jo Bloggs

    The story about the deadbeats coming to do an economic impact assessment just got very bloody interesting. Popcorn at the ready.
    Chuckle chuckle

    Dec 31st, 2022 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Tænk

    TWIMC...

    Funny how..., since Sumerian clay tables times..., people all over the World get pretty nervous at the very thought of their counterpart accountants...

    Chuckle..., chuckle...

    Dec 31st, 2022 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Jo Bloggs

    Do catch-up Think. There's a nice old man...
    Chuckle chuckle

    Dec 31st, 2022 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Tænk

    Me dear half-kelper Bloggs...

    - This nice auld man is currently occupied..., waiting for the new year at his humble Italian abode, adjacent to the Via Aurelia, bordering the Tirrenian..., forced to hear them natives discuss about that recently deceased Ratzinger fella and mourning the good Pelé part of recently deceased Edson Arantes King...

    - So..., if you have any interesting info you want to share from that windblown Patagonian Insular territory..., speak now or hold ya' peace...
    Capisce....?

    Feliz Año Nuevo para la Flia. Bloggs...

    Dec 31st, 2022 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse -1

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