South African Soccer Team Ignores Pressure to Cancel Upcoming Match Against Maccabi Tel Aviv | Algemeiner.com

The South African professional soccer team the Orlando Pirates responded on Monday to demands that it should cancel its upcoming match against Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv in solidarity with the Palestinians, saying that by the “rule of law” they cannot boycott the Israeli team.
“Whereas it is easy for those that have taken sides and adopted causes to make calls and demands, we do not enjoy such latitude,” the Johannesburg-based team said in a released statement. “Solutions we seek need to be inclusive and arrived at through putting of heads together rather than apart.”