Gameniz and Bruce Martin, leaders of a group supporters called The Angel City Brigade, are sure that this is not a time to calm.
Since its establishment in 2007, the Angel City Brigade, one of the largest fans’ collections in Galaxy, has voiced her with the 121st and 122nd Dignity SPORTS Park in Carson.
On Friday, during the Fireworks game on the fourth of July, the Galaxy supporters have expressed their frustration and anger at the vision of Latin societies in southern California targeted by the United States for Immigration and Customs (ICE) in recent weeks.
Fans say they are upset with the silence of the Galaxy management amid Ice in a Latin community. The majority of Galaxy fans are Latin, but the team did not issue any data to support the fans, and remains calm like evaders until the MLB team felt pressed and donated a million dollars for the families affected by the raids.
The galaxy and representatives of the team supporters held closed talks, but did not lead to public data by the club. Before the match against Whitecaps on Thursday, outside the field, the Angel City brigade offered signs of “stopping raids”, “free soil” and “No one illegal”.
At the end of the national anthem, “Victoria Block”, the section in which most admirers stand in the galaxy, by dismantling TIFO in three pictures: farm worker; Roy Benavides, the medal of honor in the American army; Elena Rios, President of the National Health Corporation of Spanish origin. At the bottom, I read the sign: “Fighting ignorance, not immigrants.”
Members of the Angel City city brigade, including Gloria Jiminies, protested the ice raids in southern California during the Galaxy match against Vancouver on Friday at the Dineti Health Sports Park in Carson.
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During the twelfth minute of the match, the City City Brigade left the stands in protest. The supporters gather from the galaxy and the Galaxy Outlawz, who are silently detained, do not carry any barrels or trumpets. They also did not sing or chant during the game.
“What is happening in Los Angeles has nothing to do with the players. They know this. What is happening in Los Angeles does not like,” said Manuel Martinez, leader of Galaxy Outlawz. “I belong to a family of immigrants who have become citizens. So we know the struggle that people are going through. We know that there are innocent and postal workers there.”
The riot group, on the other side of the stadium, remained silent and offered a message saying: “We love elegant whiskey, our lands and our people are free.”
Angel City brigade members maintain a sign of “Smash Ice” during the Galaxy against Vancouver on Friday in the Dignity Health SPORTS in Carson.
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This is not the first time that Galaxy Fan Active groups have taken measures when they were not satisfied with team management.
He led the Angel City City Brigade, along with other groups such as La Riot Squad, Galaxy Outlawz and Galaxians, the boycott while demanding the removal of the then team leader Chris Klein after the mismanagement and decisions they felt did not make the team able to compete enough to win. Their effort is fruit: Klein stepped down and finally led NEW Management to the Sixth MLS championship that was secured at the end of last season.
On Friday, in addition to issuing a statement reaffirming their “non -discriminatory principles, which oppose exclusion and prejudice on the basis of race, origin, sexual identity, sexual expression, or sexual expression”, fans decided to organize a fundraising campaign to support pro -immigration organizations (the center of law.
To collect funds, they sold shirts with a picture of the Chinese neighborhood, to confront the ice agent.
“This is our way of showing that we want help and fight what is going on,” said Martin, a Los Angeles citizens.
Shirt sales raised $ 4,000 for the three institutions.
Previously, the Angel City Brigade, like other Galaxy supporters, decided not to travel to the road match on June 28 against earthquakes in San Jose as a preventive measure against the raids. About 600 Galaxy fans usually attend the road match.
“We have members who were unable to work. We have members who could not go out to games or attend events. San Jose was one of them,” Jiminiz said. “We have decided that as a group, we could not travel without leaving our brothers and sisters here. So in solidarity with people who could not come because of the fear of what is going on, we decided to cancel the event.”
While the other two professional football teams in LOFC and Angel City FC – issued public data to support the Latin immigrant community, the ownership of Galaxy did not address this issue. Angel City took more support, Wearing the “migrants for the city of football”Giving some shirts far to the masses and selling more on their website as a fundraising to support an organization that provides legal support to migrants.
To date, the only member of the Galaxy that took the case publicly is the main coach Greg Vanie.
“I think we all know someone who may be more likely to be affected, so it is difficult from a human point of view not to sympathize with families and those who are affected by what is going on,” Vanie said before a match against Saint Louis City in June.
“We have to really help each other, in exchange for expecting this,” said Gamenies. “The support did not come from our team, as we expected, break our hearts into a thousand pieces.”
In the past, Galaxy and Indorporter groups cooperated during the celebration of the different Latin American countries, whose cultural symbols merge into team goods. But amid the silence of the galaxy, the fans began to question the sincerity of cultural celebrations.
“It is sad and disappointed for me. This team that was in Los Angeles since the mid -nineties, and they have benefited from the culture of propaganda. When they fell [Mexican soccer star] For example, Chicherito was strong in Mexican culture and such things. So when all this started, you may think they will be for their culture, and to be there for the masses. “Families are torn as they remain silent.”
Jiménez said there is no day that you do not cry or feel angry with ice raids.
She said about the galaxy: “We already know what we are, we are not friends or family.” “We are a fan and privilege.”
Martin said he had received messages on social media, including the Galaxy forehead and supporters of other teams, and criticized his position. However, Major General Angel City said that its members made a decision unanimously protesting.
“We have always had moments as we have a very clear vision about what we feel,” said Gamenies. “I think this is one of the times when everyone made the same decision.”
Galaxy fans are planning to organize more protests during the next match of the team.
This article It appeared first in Spanish via La Times En Español.
