Major League Soccer is reversing their ban of an anti-Nazi symbol. The decision follows fans protesting for weeks through walkouts and silent demonstrations during televised soccer games
Major League Soccer is reversing their ban on the Iron Front symbol. The decison follows fans protesting for weeks through walkouts and silent demonstrations during televised soccer games.
MLS and the Seattle Sounders said the flag is a political symbol, banned under the league's code of conduct for fans. The Seattle Sounders fan group, The Emerald City Supporters, said in a statement on its website that the imagery is a symbol of the fight against fascism, oppression and persecution. The imagery, three arrows pointed leftward and down, was actually used by a pro-democracy, anti-fascist German paramilitary organization, the Iron Front.
— EmeraldCitySupporter August 24, 2019 A joint statement from the two rivals fan groups says it in protest of the MLS ban on the imagery,"to commemorate 1933, the year the Iron Front was disbanded in Nazi Germany." The Portland Timbers fan group, Timbers Army, made their message clear in a post on Twitter.What scares you more, @MLS? Three anti-facist arrows down and to the left? Or The Sound of Silence? #RCTID #AUnitedFront pic.twitter.
— Timbers Army August 24, 2019 "What scares you more, MLS?," it read."Three anti-facist arrows down and to the left? Or The Sound of Silence?"
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