TShiru yayi yana ban mamaki. Wasannin ƙwallon ƙafa na Portland Timbers sun shahara saboda bacin rai, amma mintuna 33 na farkon wasan Timbers da abokan wasansu, Seattle Sounders, sun yi shuru. Babu rera waƙa, ba rera, ba bugu, babu alamun farin ciki na gama-gari wanda yawanci ke tare da ashana.
Rashin jin daɗin da ya mamaye filin wasan shine ƙwaƙƙwaran rundunar Timbers Army, ƙungiyar magoya bayan ƙungiyar. Sun shirya tare da kungiyoyin magoya bayan biyu daga Seattle-Emerald City Supporters da Gorilla FC - don nuna rashin amincewarsu game da sabuwar dokar da Major League Soccer ta kafa wanda ya hana alamar fascist Iron Front alama a kan tutoci da tutoci a wasanni saboda ya kasance. ake kira "siyasa." Sabon gasar Fan Code of Conduct ya bayyana cewa irin waɗannan alamomin siyasa a kan alamu "suna wakiltar barazana ga amincin" ashana.
Kungiyoyin magoya bayan a duk fadin kasar sun yi ta tada hankali kan aiwatar da wannan sabuwar doka a daidai lokacin da masu ra'ayin rikau da 'yan wariyar launin fata masu fata fata ke samun 'yanci a bainar jama'a. Wannan shi ne lamarin musamman a Portland, wani birni da ɗan jarida Arun Gupta ya duba "mafi girman tashin hankali na dama." Mako daya kacal da ya wuce, gungun kungiyoyin masu tsatsauran ra'ayi sun mamaye birnin kamar su Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, da American Guard, wata kungiyar neo-Nazi da ke da tarihin tashin hankali.
Sojojin Timbers sun yanke shawarar isa ya isa, kuma sun yi aiki a bayan fage tare da magoya bayan masu kishin su don samar da shirin zanga-zangar. Sojojin Timbers sun ƙi gina wani typhoid- nunin manyan banners da aka ɗaga sama da igiya da jakunkuna wanda ke nuna alamar kishiya. Ga Timbers masu aminci, rashin sanin sha'awar a typhoid yayi jarring. Abin da suka bayar na tsawon mintuna 33 shi ne shiru na zanga-zangar da suka yi—haka farar hayaniya ce a bakin gaf da fashe.
Alamar Iron Front tana da mahimmanci a cikin birnin Portland. Alamar wata ƙungiya ce ta 'yan gurguzu da Social Democratic Party a cikin 1930s Jamus ta ƙirƙira a matsayin tsautawa ga farkisanci a ƙarƙashin Adolf Hitler da Nazis. Nazis sun dakatar da Iron Front a cikin 1933, wanda ke da alhakin yanke shawarar fara wasan tare da shiru na mintuna 33 daidai.
A yau a Portland alamar Iron Front ta fito a matsayin tambarin hana fasa-kwauri. Amma sabuwar dokar wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ta Major League — irinta kaɗai a cikin manyan wasannin wasanni a Amurka—ya canza alamar zuwa haramtattun kayayyaki.
Akwai yalwa da irin wannan haramtattun kayayyaki a hannu a Portland ranar Juma'a. Lokacin da mintuna 33 suka kare, arewacin filin wasan ya fashe da murna. Magoya bayan sun daga tutoci sanye da alamar, a fili suna kalubalantar haramcin gasar.
Ba su kadai ba. Mai tsaron baya na Portland Zarek Valentin ya shiga cikin filin wasan kuma ya amsa tambayoyi bayan wasan sanye da riga mai alamar. Bugu da kari, dan wasan gaban Timbers Jeremy Ebobisse ya zo wasan sanye da rigar Colin Kaepernick bakar fata. tweeting "#ImWithKap." Daga nan kuma, a lokacin hutu, wasu 'yan wasan da ke cikin wadannan kungiyoyin da ke hamayya da juna sun yi wani abin ban mamaki na musayar riguna a matsayin nuna goyon baya ga magoya bayan da suka yi zanga-zangar. Lokacin da wasan ya ƙare-nasarar 2-1 Seattle - mai tsaron gidan Sounders Stefan Frei har ma ya gaishe da Sojojin Timbers.
Masu Portland Timbers, tsohon sakataren baitulmali Henry Paulson da dansa Merritt, sun ba da sanarwar. sanarwa A farkon makon da ya gabata suna masu tabbatar da cewa "sun tsaya tsayin daka da farkisanci," yayin da kuma suke goyan bayan ka'idar kungiyar game da maganganun siyasa kan tutoci da alamu.
Amma ofishin gaba na Timbers sannan bari su zame ainihin manufar doka: antifa. Ya fusata cewa alamar Iron Front tana da alaƙa da amfani da ita akai-akai ta hanyar antifa, sau da yawa a cikin mahallin tashin hankali a zanga-zangar ko zanga-zangar adawa," ya kara da cewa "Major League Soccer ya yi imanin cewa alamar Iron Front ta siyasa ce ta asali saboda an kasance tare. -Antifa ya zaba."
An ga jajircewarsu na siyasa-ko rashinsa- bayan wasan lokacin Merritt Paulson aka hange suna jefa bacin rai, suna zargin Sojojin Timbers masu zanga-zangar a matsayin alhakin asarar 2-1. Kamar yadda magoya bayan Timbers Jeffrey Ball tweeted, "Ni ne wanda yake ihu da… Na yi ihu 'Merritt Fight for us!' Ya ce 'Za ku iya yi wa Anti-Fascism duk abin da kuke so amma kun yi lalata da wannan tawagar yau da dare!'
Merritt Paulson yayi kuskure. Ko da kuwa maki na ƙarshe, Portland Timbers da magoya bayansu sun tsaya a matsayin manyan masu nasara. Sun nuna wa birnin Portland da kasar cewa za su tsaya tsayin daka wajen yakar farkisanci, da kokarin raba kan masu fafutuka, da kuma shugaban da ya kwatanta irin wannan nunin hadin kai wajen fuskantar tashin hankalin wariyar launin fata da barazanar "ta'addanci". Wannan babban karo ne - kuma mai mahimmanci - karo na wasanni da siyasa: nunin karfin adawa da hadin kai. Ya kasance game da maido da kyamar baki a cikin mafi yawan jama'a mai yuwuwar filayen jama'a, kuma idan aka yi la'akari da abubuwan da suka faru na kwanan nan a Portland, ba za a sami ƙarin maraba ba.
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Jules Boykoff ne adam wata farfesa ne a fannin kimiyyar siyasa a Jami'ar Pacific a Oregon kuma marubucin littattafai guda uku kan wasannin Olympics, kwanan nan Wasannin Wuta: Tarihin Siyasa na Gasar Olympics. Tsohon ƙwararren ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ne wanda ya wakilci ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Amurka a gasar duniya.
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