Global FootballUpdated November 9

UEFA fined France’s federation €10,000.

The France-Belgium Nations League match started a few minutes late, and the reason was unusually specific: the correct colored tape wasn’t properly attached to the players’ socks. Kooora, citing French newspaper L’Équipe, reported that organizers rejected the equipment and required the players to correct the violation before the game could begin. UEFA treated the incident as a breach of Article 6.07, which requires national federations to submit match-equipment information through its TIME platform in the weeks before each match. The French federation was fined €10,000. France won 1-0; the fine concerned the equipment violation and delay, not the result.

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