Club Deportivo Palestino
Chilean football club
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- Club Deportivo Palestino is a professional football club based in the city of Santiago, Chile and plays in the Primera División de Chile.
- It is known for public displays of solidarity with Palestinians, including fans chanting pro-Palestinian slogans and players once entering the field wearing keffiyehs.
- The club has won two national titles and reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores in 1979.
- History The club was founded on 8 August 1920, when they participated in a colonial competition in Osorno.
- According to American historian Brenda Elsey, "Leaders of the Arab immigrant community who hoped to find a niche within popular culture for their organizations decided to participate in football once again in 1940s".
Club Deportivo Palestino is a professional football club based in the city of Santiago, Chile and plays in the Primera División de Chile. Club Deportivo Palestino was founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants, and the club has maintained a strong symbolic connection to Palestinian identity, using the colours of the Palestinian flag in its kit and incorporating a map of pre-1948 Palestine into its logo and uniforms. It is known for public displays of solidarity with Palestinians, including fans chanting pro-Palestinian slogans and players once entering the field wearing keffiyehs. In 2014, the team was fined and banned by Chile’s football association for altering the number "1" on jerseys to resemble the outline of Mandatory Palestine.
The club has won two national titles and reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores in 1979. The club is supported by Chile’s Palestinian community, the largest outside the Arab world, and Palestino also engages in community outreach, supporting women’s football and financing football schools in the Palestinian territories.
History
The club was founded on 8 August 1920, when they participated in a colonial competition in Osorno. It was founded by a group of Palestinians; the name of the club reflects the origin in Chile's Palestinian community. According to American historian Brenda Elsey,
"Leaders of the Arab immigrant community who hoped to find a niche within popular culture for their organizations decided to participate in football once again in 1940s".
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