A “period of silence” will be held at Wembley ahead of England’s match against Australia on Friday for victims of the Israel-Gaza war, the Football Association (FA) has confirmed.
A “period of silence” will be held at Wembley ahead of ’s match against on Friday for victims of the Israel-Gaza war, the Football Association has confirmed. FA chairwoman Debbie Hewitt, speaking at a event on Tuesday, had said the governing body was “giving thought” to a show of support at Wembley for “all innocent victims”. Advertisement The FA confirmed the pre-match tribute on Thursday and said that players from both teams would also wear black armbands.
and have yet to issue statements about the situation and the Premier League has not yet publicly commented, though president Aleksander Ceferin wrote a letter to the president of the Israel FA in which he expressed “profound sorrow” about “senseless acts of violence”. But the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport wrote to sports bodies on Wednesday encouraging them to pay respects to the victims at forthcoming events. Advertisement England manager Gareth Southgate is due to face the media on Thursday afternoon.
confirmed earlier on Thursday that Israel’s European qualifier against Kosovo — along with its fixture against — had been postponed. The action resumes on Saturday, October 21.
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