Los Angeles-based broadside Angel City wore shirts speechmaking 'Immigrant City Football Club' earlier their National Women's Soccer League location crippled against North Carolina.
The players' amusement of enactment was a effect to the ongoing raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the resulting protests successful Los Angeles.
The nine printed 10,000 T-shirts which work 'Immigrant City Football Club' connected the beforehand and 'Los Angeles is for everyone / Los Angeles es para todos' connected the back.
Fans were handed shirts erstwhile they entered BMO Stadium, portion Angel City absorption and coaching unit besides wore them.
"Los Angeles is and ever volition beryllium an migrant city," said Angel City's elder societal media co-ordinator Yaoziuatl Martinez.
"'Immigrant City FC' points to the make-up of not conscionable the metropolis itself and however we correspond it, but who our squad is.
"Our squad is made up of immigrants. Our unit is made up of immigrants. It's conscionable precise plainly reflecting what and who we are arsenic an organisation."
Before kick-off vocalist and histrion Becky G, an Angel City founding capitalist and LA native, work a connection from the nine that was distributed successful paper signifier to supporters.
It read: "The cloth of this metropolis is made of immigrants. Football does not beryllium without immigrants. This nine does not beryllium without immigrants."
Speaking aft the 2-1 defeat, Angel City defender and nine skipper Ali Riley said: "Football, the crippled that we each love, we person it present due to the fact that of immigrants.
"It's played the mode it is due to the fact that of immigrants. This nine that is specified a immense portion of maine wouldn't beryllium present without immigrants."
Earlier this week the NWSL Players Association released a connection successful conjunction with the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Players Association astir the raids.
It read: "We basal with each radical seeking safety, dignity, and opportunity, nary substance wherever they travel from oregon wherever they anticipation to go.
"Every idiosyncratic deserves to beryllium treated with dignity and respect. We cognize not each concern is simple. But offering compassion should ne'er beryllium up for debate."
The NWSL has not made a statement.
Last play Los Angeles FC fans unfurled an 'Abolish ICE' banner successful the stands earlier kick-off and sat successful soundlessness passim the 3-1 MLS triumph implicit Sporting Kansas City.
Mexico's Gold Cup lucifer against the Dominican Republic successful LA connected Saturday passed without trouble.
On Friday Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum urged US authorities not to behaviour migration enforcement targeting fans astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood.
The Mexico squad were forced to alteration hotels earlier the lucifer due to the fact that of information considerations.
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