Fifa red card for Nico Rosberg’s World Cup helmet

Formula One championship leader Nico Rosberg has had to abandon plans to wear a special helmet decorated with the World Cup trophy at his home German Grand Prix due to copyright issues after Fifa intervened. Rosberg, who drives for German Football Association sponsors Mercedes, had shown his 712,000 followers on Twitter a picture of the planned helmet in the German colours with four stars and the golden trophy on top. ‘This will be my Hockenheim World Cup special edition helmet with the Fifa trophy. How do you like it?,’ the German had asked fans still celebrating Germany’s 1-0 triumph over Argentina in the final in Brazil last weekend. The helmet infringed world soccer body Fifa’s copyright however and Rosberg’s spokesman Georg Nolte confirmed that the image of the trophy would not now appear. A new version, shown to reporters, featured one big star with a 14 inside and three smaller stars denoting Germany’s four world championships. agencies