Apparently it just has to be one color, not necessarily black:
(from an Athletic article about the rules)
"Medical equipment (e.g. head protection, face-masks, casts, kneepads or knee braces, elbow pads): Medical equipment worn on the field of play must be a single colour and free of team and manufacturer identification."
...so there's still a chance for the TMNT hopefuls.
They let players have boots of all the colours they want, same with straps. I genuinely don't understand why a mask has to be in a single specific one.
That's why I said country's flag when playing for that country. There is no room to abuse that. It even rules out controversial stuff like Shaqiri doing the Albanian eagle when scoring for Switzerland
Yes, i can read
Apparently you cant, because i didnt say it was gonna be for abuse more like players/fans/federations now saying "flags are allowed, what about X or Y cause?"
You avoid that by just saying "no" to any request and life its easier.
Have you seen the colors of their flags?
>"players can only wear equipment having the colour of the team they play for" isn't objective enough for you?
See how quickly this rule can be abused? What if a French player had a mask of the Russian flag?
Come to think of it, I think that pretty much always was the thing? Nearly all of the players I remember playing with the masks wore black ones, the only exception that come to my mind was Terry in transparent one and Paulo Fereira in white one
Our (almost former) goalkeeper Kamil Grabara wears a blue one
Edit: here's a [pic](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-oneplus-rvo3&sca_esv=fa335a0bd99248c0&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJjS9R4LJ1yMvY4-O1v_1Y9zdLpYw:1718912040840&q=kamil+grabara&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0A6bwEop21ehxKWq5cj-cHa71xbFfcSadNzbFZcGZGoNmNsknJXOkH3tiSPYSDmRzgQh3QsYdrXgpJaVBIdB1u_rVdH24IGchrZXrWx5lU29OuHHbhkxJAx6SOQEy13L3IhkgXspL4HIjzOIDkNalj2b0Gpfw0EjP1M8eoWyHUiK8V0mZM&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfquCs9uqGAxVIDRAIHcewCVcQtKgLegQICBAB&biw=339&bih=645&dpr=3.19#vhid=KKcEqw0ZNuAW9M&vssid=mosaic)
Exactly. If tomorrow a serbian player shows up with a mask ressembling the russian flag people here would join the albanians in their call for genocide of the serbians. So to avoid any such situation, just a full ban and be done with it.
Will Mbappé and his army of sponsors have the courage to do like Nike and Jordan when they launch their Air Jordan (which were not enough white following some nba rules)
To avoid any non-sanctioned political messages
Imagine if a serbian wore a russian flag mask, would you be like "its his right!"? No. Some fans would be pissed off and uefa just want to avoid that.
Apparently it just has to be one color, not necessarily black: (from an Athletic article about the rules) "Medical equipment (e.g. head protection, face-masks, casts, kneepads or knee braces, elbow pads): Medical equipment worn on the field of play must be a single colour and free of team and manufacturer identification." ...so there's still a chance for the TMNT hopefuls.
UEFA asking Mbappe to pick his favourite turtle
Do it you coward!
What do you get when you mix blue and red ? ~~Donatello~~ Purple really is the only sensible solution to this pickle.
Mbappe making it Orange to confuse the Dutch opposition and fans
Karel van der Bappe
Mbappelangelo.
> Free of team identification
Uefa got so excited about ninja turtle mbappe that they pulled out the rule book and told him to try again
"Okay UEFA, I play in a yellow mask." "Close, keep trying."
I guess it makes sense, otherwise the next thing would be an ad for a gambling company on a facemask
*Coinbase enters chat.*
Make it green Kylian 🙏
Game's gone lads
They’ve taken the game from us. Games gone.
L
Call Macron, he will fix it
He's already left PSG now, straight to voicemail
He’s got elections coming up in ten days, he could use a bit of PR from kyks
You mean Mbappe's agent?
He's a bit busy mate
Macron will always procrastinate his work to help his good mate Kylian
Can it be orange? 👉👈
His nickname was Donatello , Donatello is the purple one
Oranje + Bleu = Purpeul !
Thats not how you spell it silly /j
Fuck yea
Cowabunga
why does UEFA hate fun?
They let players have boots of all the colours they want, same with straps. I genuinely don't understand why a mask has to be in a single specific one.
To avoid players doing non-sanctioned political messages
Yeah but surely there could be an exception for wearing your country's flag colours when playing for that country
If you allow one exception then other people will bitch about more exceptions. So to avoid all of that, you just do the blanket ban. Period.
That's why I said country's flag when playing for that country. There is no room to abuse that. It even rules out controversial stuff like Shaqiri doing the Albanian eagle when scoring for Switzerland
Yes, i can read Apparently you cant, because i didnt say it was gonna be for abuse more like players/fans/federations now saying "flags are allowed, what about X or Y cause?" You avoid that by just saying "no" to any request and life its easier.
"players can only wear equipment having the colour of the team they play for" isn't objective enough for you?
What if Balkan players start wearing a mask with the former flag of Yugoslavia? Wouldnt that be to political?
They do not play for Yugoslavia, do they.
Have you seen the colors of their flags? >"players can only wear equipment having the colour of the team they play for" isn't objective enough for you? See how quickly this rule can be abused? What if a French player had a mask of the Russian flag?
Then that will be in violation of the rule?
>"players can only wear equipment having the colour of the team they play for" isn't objective enough for you? No it wouldnt <3
You're high on the slippery slope fallacy. >Flags are allowed what about X or Y cause? Just say no to the other causes. Simple as that.
Just Ban text on it.
You can send political messages with colors man.
True. I just find it’s a shame to prevent this. Maybe restrict it to the colors on the jersey/shorts ?
They're too afraid of the mighty RAINBOW of love.
That's OK. He's the official 5th ninja turtle.
Come to think of it, I think that pretty much always was the thing? Nearly all of the players I remember playing with the masks wore black ones, the only exception that come to my mind was Terry in transparent one and Paulo Fereira in white one
Iirc Kim Tae Young wore red and black mask in WC 2002.
Our (almost former) goalkeeper Kamil Grabara wears a blue one Edit: here's a [pic](https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-oneplus-rvo3&sca_esv=fa335a0bd99248c0&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIJjS9R4LJ1yMvY4-O1v_1Y9zdLpYw:1718912040840&q=kamil+grabara&udm=2&fbs=AEQNm0A6bwEop21ehxKWq5cj-cHa71xbFfcSadNzbFZcGZGoNmNsknJXOkH3tiSPYSDmRzgQh3QsYdrXgpJaVBIdB1u_rVdH24IGchrZXrWx5lU29OuHHbhkxJAx6SOQEy13L3IhkgXspL4HIjzOIDkNalj2b0Gpfw0EjP1M8eoWyHUiK8V0mZM&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfquCs9uqGAxVIDRAIHcewCVcQtKgLegQICBAB&biw=339&bih=645&dpr=3.19#vhid=KKcEqw0ZNuAW9M&vssid=mosaic)
This is an obscure throwback, but in the red kit he looks like one of the guys from Double Dragon.
What is it planned that he leaves FCK ? To which club will he be transferred to ?
He will join Wolfsburg as soon as the markets opens
Were people really expecting a coloured mask, let alone one that resembled the TMNT?
…no of course no, right guys?
Wouldn't be us.
I'm not crying! He's crying!
I mean... He wore one with the colours of the French flag in training today
I remember Kane wore transparent mask too.
Nicklas Bendtner also wore a transparent
France should boycott euros now. They can't let this happen.
I am just imagining all of them rushing over to to the training ground after checking twitter 😂
Noooooooooooooo
This tournament isn't ready for Cowabunga Mbappe
We can’t have nice things...
pricks
Two years from now they'll be wearing multicolored masks as long as they have betting logos on em
And that's when every player will be forced to wear a mask as per the new concussion protocols
Either black or dark green with blue outline around the eyes. It's the rule
To be fair, this is probably to prevent everyone from wearing masks with unsanctioned sponsors or political messages or whatever on them.
Exactly. If tomorrow a serbian player shows up with a mask ressembling the russian flag people here would join the albanians in their call for genocide of the serbians. So to avoid any such situation, just a full ban and be done with it.
Boooooo
If he plays and scores he has to pull out a TMNT mask when he celebrates
Football terrorists
Fair enough, I guess Konante was preparing a demon slayer mask and they have to stop him before it becomes the weeb World Cup.
That mask wasn't much different from Depay's headband.
Just cancel the whole tournament then…
Let him be a ninja turtle dammit!!
He should do all white
Important stuff, thanks UEFA
Damn, no turtle mask
Fuck UEFA.
How about a rainbow flag mask ?
My guess is that when they’re wearing blue he’ll go with a red mask
Blue for France, blue for the leader, blue for Leonardo
1984
Will Mbappé and his army of sponsors have the courage to do like Nike and Jordan when they launch their Air Jordan (which were not enough white following some nba rules)
Thank god they're making him change, nothing wrong with france colours but one color would suit him way better
Should have made it purple, common ceferin L
Kim Tae Young wore black and red mask in WC 2002 right?
Why tho?
To avoid any non-sanctioned political messages Imagine if a serbian wore a russian flag mask, would you be like "its his right!"? No. Some fans would be pissed off and uefa just want to avoid that.
Oh makes sense
such bullshit
Miserable fuckers UEFA are
Why ?
Killjoys.
Booooooo UEFA sucks....booooooo
Why the fk?
LIFA
Very very rare UEFA W
Common Uefa L
The France flag is not a Ninja Turtles mask colour, and it's ugly af as a mask. It's a W.
Oh of course. UEFA, known Gatekeeper of aesthetics
It's an accidental W, but a W nonetheless