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World Cup racism monitor urges FIFA to remove match official over hand gesture on TV broadcast

  • Posted on June 15, 2026
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World Cup racism monitor urges FIFA to remove match official over hand gesture on TV broadcast
World Cup racism monitor urges FIFA to remove match official over hand gesture on TV broadcast

FIFA’s discrimination monitor at the World Cup called Monday for a video review official to be removed for appearing to make a hand gesture resembling a white supremacist sign. When the official broadcast of Germany's opening game against Curaçao on Sunday cut pre-game to show the team of video review analysts, Shaun Evans from Australia made an “OK” symbol with his right hand in front of his right leg. “Advice from our experts is that the gesture used clearly resembles an upside down ‘OK’ hand symbol used as a ‘white power’ symbol in global far-right circles,” the Fare network, a long-time partner of FIFA and European soccer body UEFA to monitor racist and discriminatory chants, flags and symbols at international games, said in a statement.
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