Via Larry Brown Sports:
Many sports teams did what they could to raise awareness for breast cancer during the month of October, but one soccer team’s attempt to do their part went terribly wrong.
Fans of the Venezuelan soccer team Deportivo Tachira stormed the pitch and refused to leave for at least 30 minutes before the team’s game against Atletico Venezuela on Sunday because they were upset Tachira was wearing pink uniforms instead of their traditional yellow and black kits. The pink uniforms were worn in support of Senos Ayuda Foundation — a non-profit cancer charity — and part of the team’s contribution to Breast Cancer Awareness.
A group of fans reportedly began waving their replica jerseys over their heads and chanted about “defending their colors” before going onto the field where they were penned in by riot police. After their protest lasted for over 30 minutes, the players were taken off the field and the game was suspended.
The team had been promoting the cancer awareness theme in the week leading up to the game. The Deportivo Tachira Twitter account continuously used a “#JuntosPorUnaNobleCausa” (translation: together for a noble cause) hashtag on their tweets all week. They also were giving free admission to the game (except the lower level of the stadium) to women wearing pink.
Congratulations, soccer fans, you’ve done it once again. We’ve seen soccer fans protest games in the past for really dumb reasons, and we’ve even seen a soccer fan killed for a really stupid reason. This horrible error in judgment ranks right up there with all of those awful stories.
You can see some of the photos from the incident in the beginning of this video:
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Be happy if it saves a life is all it is about .
If our sports teams have to wear the pink jerseys why is there no pressure from us on our politicians to wear pink suits in November? When did this all change from at 1st showing your support by wearing a pink ribbon, to now where our sports teams have to have their entire jersey's pink? What's next, pink tatoo's or pink body paint?
IMO fans have the right to protest whatever and whenever they want to if their team (that they by the way, pay their salaries and are the ones that paid for their stadium AND they also paid for THEIR JERSEY'S) does something that they don't approve of. Let's face it, pink is an effeminate color. So to some male soccer fans, seeing "their" guys in that color could be offensive, espeacially if they loose.
Just my opinion, and I respect yours so let me just say this: I think this whole pink thing has went too far. If you want to show your support for breast cancer awareness wear the ribbon. Don't pressure everyone to wear all pink all the time during the entire month. To some people that color is offensive and thats just the way it has been and will always be...
And this is just another Anti-Soccer article (American Athletes NFL/MLB/NBA are the biggest homophobes on the planet)
It's funny how you'll support peoples rights to wear what they want and express themselves too however they want. But when it comes to someone who you don't agree with or might have a different or opposite oppinion than you, then they don't have that same right. They just need to shut the hell up and go and mind their own business.
You people are a bunch of hypocrites...
2. Pink was the color of all male babies...at least in the USA... until around the 1920-30s(?)sorry, I forgot the exact date. Navy blue was the female color. Prior to that time, the fabric dyes were rather harsh in color. Males could handle the bold pink look, and Navy blue was the considered to be the flattering hue for pale skinned females. Depending on your age, you might have been born in the pink!