Angel City FC expands pro-immigrant campaign with a message in 13 languages - BERITAJA

Angel City Football Club announced connected Thursday the description of its “Immigrant City Football Club” campaign, unveiling a limited-edition apparel postulation featuring the motto “Los Angeles is for Everyone” written successful 13 languages representing the city’s divers communities.

The T-shirt and cap, disposable successful the club’s colors, characteristic languages specified arsenic Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Armenian, Farsi, Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew, Yoruba, and Zapotec — the second representing 1 of the city’s largest indigenous migrant communities, originating from Oaxaca, Mexico.

“Los Angeles is 1 of the about divers cities successful the world, and that diverseness is our strength,” said Chris Fajardo, Angel City FC’s vice president of organization relations, successful a statement. “This run is much than a t-shirt. It’s about showing up for our community, celebrating our differences, and making it clear that everyone belongs here.”

The backmost of the jersey, written successful 13 languages, including Zapotec.

(Angel City)

The products are disposable connected the Angel City online shop and will beryllium disposable astatine the club’s shop astatine BMO Stadium opening May 2, during the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month commemorative lucifer against the Utah Royals.

Proceeds from the waste of the merchandise will beryllium donated to the International Institute of Los Angeles (IILA), a nonprofit statement that provides migration ineligible assistance, exile support and basal services for migrant integration successful the city.

The inaugural expands connected the original run launched past year, erstwhile the nine distributed the first T-shirt successful solidarity pinch Los Angeles’ migrant communities facing uncertainty successful the metropolis owed to migration raids. During the raids, galore Los Angeles teams, including the Dodgers and the Galaxy, were criticized for their silence, contempt having a ample Latino instrumentality base.

Last year, 10,000 T-shirts were printed. They were worn by players arsenic they arrived astatine the stadium, while Angel City coach Alexander Straus and his coaching unit besides wore them connected the bench, and 1 of the team’s investors, vocalist Becky G, said to fans successful the stadium successful support of immigrants earlier the game.

This article first appeared successful Spanish via L.A. Times en Español.