FAZ live ticker for the World Cupin ARD and on MagentaTV) can still wear the controversial captain’s armband.She linked this to massive threats of sporting sanctions without specifying them,” said DFB spokesman Steffen Simon when asked by SID.The topic was also omnipresent in the newspapers: “Love has lost, hate has won”, wrote the Times, “It is shameful”, judged the Schweizer Blick.Fierce criticism of FIFA also came from Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (“very strange”) and ex-national player Thomas Hitzlsperger (“In the end it’s about Infantino staying in power”) and Christoph Kramer (“FIFA is an amazing club”).It’s a farce,” said the former DFB captain on MagentaTV: “But I would have liked the big nations to have more power.”For national player Leon Goretzka, who spoke to the newspapers of the Funke media group, the FIFA ban is “incomprehensible”."