A. Haha, we see it the other way... It's preference, their is no right or wrong direction, just what you believe is good for the country. Believe it or not, when I was younger I was fairly conservative myself, but my views changed with my personal experience of the world.

B. I'm afraid that was partly my view outside of football. I have had an 'aversion' if you will (tottaly not the right word, but I can't think of the one I need.). I'm not against religion deep down, but I'm from a Christian family and from a young age I was told what to believe and it caused me to not be big on the whole 'preaching' thing. Sorry if thiat offended you in any way.

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Also, I hope I haven't come accross as 'anti-Christian' at some point. I have tried not to single out one religion and truth be told Christianity is the one I am closest too.

Everything is offensive to someone.  Heck, ask zexen about just the normal Brazil shirt! ;)

I can see that I am too stubborn to change my viewpoint on this and a lot of you guys won't change your view either. So on that note I think I am going to agree to disagree and leave before I come off sounding like a dickhead lol.

No, u dont have to xplain that. Im 100 % sure both marciosmg, Kasz and myself clearly have understood from your general tone that you aren't a religion-hater, or a zealot rabid-atheist etc. Dont worry, we can detect your stance and attitude.

So thank you for the clarification, it's really nice, but neither of us were offended. =)

So, back to the topic.

That's just not true.  Did you ever stop and wonder why Israel plays in UEFA and not AFC?

What can I say? There's an exception to every rule lol.

It's not the same at all.  FIFA has certain rules and regulations that must be followed for teams to compete.  Players must wear matching uniforms with numbers on the back, for example.  They're certainly within their rights to outlaw this sort of thing.  This isn't about freedom of expression, other than being able to express yourself with a T-shirt while at work.  I don't know about y'all, but I can't do that, and I'm sure plenty of others can't do it either.  We have to be dressed a certain way to conduct business.  This is the same, as long as FIFA doesn't try to forbid wearing such a T-shirt when off the field.

Keep in mind that although I think FIFA can make such rules as a condition for entering their competition (if they couldn't, you'd be infringing on their freedom to structure their competition the way they see fit), I do disagree with making this rule as I think it takes away from the game rather than adds to it.

I was wondering as well, why Highwaystar didn't stand to this spin.

So it worked well without a "I belong to Jesus"-shirt for 100 years, why should you now need to wear one. It's absolutely okay, if they're Christians, Muslim, etc. and they pray before the game, but do they really have to wear a shirt to show it?

It started some years ago and the shirt-thing is quite common with Brazilian players (Kaka, Ze Roberto, Lucio always wear them) and now it's coming to a point, where they overdid it. I'm actually sick of seeing one every time a Brazilian scores.

The problem is not, that they're proud Christians, the problem is, that this is actually becoming political. Imagine the next World Cup Brazil plays Saudi Arabia and then all of the players show their faith on a shirt - well that's political then.

And politics simply shouldn't be a part of football.

Even my old lady who thinks christianity is a joke thinks this is bullshit.

"Everyone must where this jersey" is an acceptable code.

"You can't show any non-regulation T-shirt after scoring" is an acceptable code.

"You can't show religious T-shirts after scoring" is not.

It's showing specific bias against one realm of topic for no reason.