Ten players from Jamaican side Mount Pleasant have been denied a visa to enter the United States for Wednesday's Concacaf Champions Cup tie against LA Galaxy.
10 players from Jamaican club denied entry to US
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cddnlp5g8rro
11 Comments
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 33 pts · 165d
The US will win the next world cup. One way or another.
Concave1142@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 165d
Hard to lose a game when you're the only one playing.
Chough@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 165d
This is not a good sign for the world cup.
azimir@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 165d
This FIFA event might be the US version of the 1936 Olympics.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -2 pts · 165d
Its CONCACAF not FIFA.
criticon@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 165d
A CONCACAF event is a FIFA event
njm1314@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 165d
Well if the US won't allow them to play then it seems the US team should have to Forfeit.
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 165d
US playing the diplomatic equivalent of the Samurai Champloo baseball episode
Drusas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 165d
It amazes me that there are still people who are not white, native English-speakers coming to this country (or trying to). Just don't.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 165d
well, there are groups like Latino's for Trump and Ethiopians for Trump, so....
it's why /c/LeopardsAteMyFace exists
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 165d
While I don't fault the Galaxy players for this, their owner is a Trumper who deserves to have the game forfeited.
No, I'm not incredibly biased against the Galaxy.