Interesting article. I've made these points too but have been poo poo'd when I mentioned them...
https://www.sbnation.com/soccer/201...eam-hispanic-player-development-sueno-alianza
I've never seen anyone poo poo these points.
Personally I poo pooed that one Guardian article a while back, because it was well, ****. It belligerently And deliberately mislead and misframed real issues and it picked examples to spin from my immediate community.
If I tell untruths about issues of inequality or social justice, those untruths must still be called out no matter the underlying importantance of the actual issues.
The revelation from the SBNation article is that for years what was simply reported as
politics that got Hugo Perez ousted from the Federation, really was about his connections to the Latino community and specifically the worth and value he saw in Sueño Alianza. I mean yea we all read between the lines, but to see it spelled out, just wow.
Hugo Perez is the best talent evaluator and youth coach that the Federation has ever seen, he got fired for being more capable and explicitly for being more thorough in his work than his peers.
The culture of distrust within USSF and it's projection of a lack of worth onto Sueño Alianza has to be interpreted as the Federation's feelings towards its Latino constituents, and that's obscene.
It's disgusting that USSF actively told its employees and vendors not to promote the USSF brand at the event.
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