There are more important things than the results of a football game. Even when the football game is among the bitter rivals, whose supporters shake each other’s head.
The El Trafficko match between LAFC and Galaxy is one of those appropriate rivals. In only eight sessions, it has blossomed in MLS to the most acute, meaningful and emotional rivalry. And sometimes, especially in the early years, especially in the early years, the feeling became largely uncontrolled, some fans finished their nights in handcuffs or in a hospital’s emergency room.
Last Saturday was different. Well, at least it began differently before ending with the same wild raucussune that came to define El Trafficko. A little bit about it.
But first, some backgrounds.
More than six weeks ago, masked federal agents, soon, started invading the neighborhood in Southern California during the immigration raid, to support the National Guard soldiers and American Marines soon that the Times had raised fear due to over 2,700 arrests. More than two-thirds of the arrested people were never convicted of crime and 57% were never accused of crime.
And this is the place where the story becomes a football.
Football by custom and breeding is an immigrant game. Like Pizza, Sushi and Halloween, football was imported into America by immigrants and was popularized in the immigrant neighborhood before spreading into culture. So for many football fans, violent raids, which harassed families and communities, were personal.
Angel City FC, Los Angeles’ National Women’s Football League Team, and LAFC immediately reacted. Within a few hours of the first raid, both teams issued statements of support of their fans.
“When there are so many fear and uncertainty in our city,” read in the LAFC statement, “LAFC stands shoulder to shoulder with all the members of our community.”
Galaxy and its original company, AEG, like the rest of MLS, remain silent so far – a silence that is getting deaf for many of its supporters, he began to boycott the team and its activities. For a long time, season-ticket holders have canceled their orders and the three sections in the upper deck reserved for fans of the team that set fire to L Trefico at the BMO Stadium on Saturday were about half of the first time in the upper deck.
So the association of LAFC supporters stepped into zero, the message that the Galaxy fans have not yet received from their club: we have your back. Fans of Kickoff LAFC at the North Stand unfitted a huge banner, which wrote: “Los Angeles Unidos Jams Sera Vansido” (“Los Angeles, United, will never be defeated.”
LAFC fans show their support before the team’s rivalry game against Galaxy at BMO Stadium on Saturday.
(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)
This message takes to a revolutionary slogan that starts “united people”. It originated in Chile in the 1970s, but has long been popular with the ground movements in Latin America as it means to provide political – and football -affiliation to provide a universal truth about unity and justice.
In this fight, LAFC supporters were saying, two local MLS teams were on the same side. It was not joining hands with Galaxy supporters and singing ,Kumbaya. “But it was close.
Given the history and heritage of football, it is sad and suggests that LAFC remains the only MLS organization, which has talked about fear and disappointment due to immigration raids. This is not a political issue, after all; LAFC’s brief 49-word statement, which was not authorized to speak a league source publicly, was approved by MLS, never refer to politics or immigration. Instead, it celebrates the importance of diversity.
Nevertheless, another team, in a league, who owes its existence for immigrants, has dared to take a step. Citing sources in the rolling stone, league and team, said that the Trump would lead the administration by taking any kind of stand, which started raids to take retaliation. They cite the example of doors, who were sued by the Trump-monopoly conservative legal group after pledging to give $ 1 million to support immigrant families.
A league executive is not authorized to speak on records, pushed back on it.
The league has come to announce a formal policy about such cases, the executive said, “An old fan of two decades is the code of conduct that” prevents fans from displaying signs, symbols, or images used for commercial purposes, or any political candidate, party, legislative issues or against the action of the party, legislative issues or government. “
The League may have encouraged the teams to remain silent, but its policies do not clearly restrict the galaxies, or any other team, by supporting the immigrants and opposing the arrest of the legal residents. Nevertheless, LAFC-and Angel City and NWSL are Chicago Red Stars-one only top level football team that has done so so far.
So it has fallen to action for fans, waving banners and staging boycott with MLS supporters in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, Nashville, Austin and other places.
But if ice is a common enemy, then it is not only one. After the Galaxy, a two-round rally was rally rally rally twice on the final touch of the game on the last touch of the game-a game married by a mini-breast in which 10 players were included in the stop time-the rivalry returned, in which the fans of the LAFC had argued with beer and garbage and arguing with the Galaxy supporters in the parking lot.
Solidarity, it seems, its limitations.
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