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'Palestine' Soccer Team Agrees To Yank 1-State Map From Jersey
Chile’s top soccer league has penalized the Palestine Football Club with a fine after playing in three official matches wearing uniforms showing the entire map of Israel as Palestine.
On Monday, the National Association of Professional Football of Chile, or ANFP, by unanimous decision penalized the soccer team, which was founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants to Chile, some $1,300 for having the map on the back of the jerseys in place of the numeral 1. The ANFP also ruled that the team must redesign the uniforms to include numerals for player numbers.
The ANFP said it had decided to punish the Palestine team because it was opposed to “any form of political, religious, sexual, ethnic, social or racial discrimination.”
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/191279/palestine-soccer-team-agrees-to-yank--state-map-f/#ixzz2r3dh4y4l
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