Sportswashing and CFG

alot here are saying "we would get a team anyway". how? the NYC2 was always a rumor and something we all knew garber wanted but it went years without happening. cosmos were allegedly the closest ( iirc some backing from wilpons as well?) but did not happen due to allegedly them not wanting to give up name colors etc and cosmos being cosmos.

still, no other ownership group came along to push a team (at least none that i remember reading about) probably because of the same situation we are facing right now....lack of stadium, where would they play? and spend 100 million blindly was not something i think many groups wanted to risk.
 
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Relevant to this thread's interests:
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Why the CIA doesn't spy on the UAE

The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of Qatar, despite U.S. calls to resolve the dispute. It hired former staffers of the...
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I appreciate this thread. This season, my first full season following NYCFC, I bought a jersey against my better judgement in regards to the corporate logo and U.A.E. Connection.
I have had my head in the sand about the U.A.E.
I’m torn.
It’s no great consolation but as U.S. taxpayers and consumers we are fueling human rights abuses all over the planet. Governmental agencies local and federal continue to oppress people in the “land of the free”. I feel the Native American population is living an “invisible” human rights atrocity that is unconscionable.
The mountain we have to climb to end human rights abuses is high.
I don’t like corporate logos on uniforms at all and I hate that it’s become a part of soccer.
I don’t have an answer but I try not to be a consumptive asshole and cultivate an awareness of people.
 
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VernonJohn said:
I appreciate this thread. This season, my first full season following NYCFC, I bought a jersey against my better judgement in regards to the corporate logo and U.A.E. Connection.
I have had my head in the sand about the U.A.E.
I’m torn.
It’s no great consolation but as U.S. taxpayers and consumers we are fueling human rights abuses all over the planet. Governmental agencies local and federal continue to oppress people in the “land of the free”. I feel the Native American population is living an “invisible” human rights atrocity that is unconscionable.
The mountain we have to climb to end human rights abuses is high.
I don’t like corporate logos on uniforms at all and I hate that it’s become a part of soccer.
I don’t have an answer but I try not to be a consumptive asshole and cultivate an awareness of people.
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Definitely true.

Theoretically, U.S. citizens have some agency when it comes to human rights abuses perpetrated by U.S. governmental agencies. I know that that level of agency is limited by our particular model of democracy, and not all taxpayers and consumers have access to even that. But that still makes it a somewhat different situation to the UAE / NYCFC situation, and even the UAE itself, given that it's ranked 147th out of 167 countries by the Democracy Index and labelled an authoritarian regime: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index.

What agency do NYCFC fans have? We have the ability to withhold our money and our support for the club, I guess, but we can't really choose to support our club currently without effectively supporting the laundering of the UAE's reputation. That's a pretty unsatisfying choice, especially given our membership of communities that have formed around the club even at this nascent stage in its development, and the relative lack of alternatives if you don't count New Jersey or lower-league soccer. We do have the agency to be conspicuous about our disagreement with the UAE connection, though, and inform people about the rationale.
 
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I just looked at some of the other images on their instagram. They have one "analysing" a RB shirt (granted not actually "cleansing" it of the logos, but anyway. It selects the instances of the bulls on the shirt, then...associates them with the Pamplona Bull Run and flags them as "error" because of that? So are they trying to say that you also can't have any image of an animal in any way associated with practices some may see as cruel?

I'm so confused.

Here's the link, for those interested:

 
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Falastur said:
I just looked at some of the other images on their instagram. They have one "analysing" a RB shirt (granted not actually "cleansing" it of the logos, but anyway. It selects the instances of the bulls on the shirt, then...associates them with the Pamplona Bull Run and flags them as "error" because of that? So are they trying to say that you also can't have any image of an animal in any way associated with practices some may see as cruel?

I'm so confused.

Here's the link, for those interested:

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'twas supposed to highlight the fact that the team is a marketing tool for the brand. The Pamplona thing was just supposed to be funny. We're having some fun with an AI-driven brand narrative. FAI, the AI is interpreting the Laws of the Game very literally in order to highlight issues with sponsorship in football.
 
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Not related to CFG, but "Inter Miami" or whatever they might end up being called has reportedly signed a sponsorship deal, possibly with stadium naming rights, with Qatar Airways.

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Inter Miami jersey sponsor might be a country where homosexuality is illegal | Pro Soccer USA

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inter Miami CF, the new South Florida soccer team owned in part by David Beckham, has reportedly reached a $234 million sponsorship deal with the state-owned airline of Qatar. The deal could have the uniforms and a new Miami stadium emblazoned with the name of an Arab...
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Looks like I get my breaking news from theNYCFC forums...
So I started to look into this and came across:
...however, cracks in the deal became quickly apparent after its announcement on Thursday, with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying there was “no change” to his annexation plans, while the UAE insisted that it “immediately stops annexation”

That doesn’t seem insignificant to me and since it’s a “deal brokered by Washington” I couldn’t help think of how “Washington” made a big fuss about how we don’t have to worry about North Korea and Rocket Man cause a deal was made and the Kim regime was going to stop it’s Nuclear and ICBM testing and then Kim said nah, we’re going to continue.
 
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