by Carlos Medina Lahsen, para Asifuch
Original Article (spanish): https://asifuch.cl/la-camiseta-prohibida-de-palestino/

On January 4th, 2014, one of the greatest milestones in the history of Club Deportivo Palestino began. At the first match of the 2013-2014 Clausura Tournament of Chile’s First Division, when Palestino beat Everton 4-0, with 3 goals from Roberto Gutiérrez (1), the teams’s leaders, together with Roberto Abusada, owner of the sportswear manufacturer Training Profesional, wanted an innovate  new jersey design, which replaced the number ‘1’ with a map of Historic Palestine (present-day Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories that lasted until 1947) (2), a country that, at the time the club was founded, both Jews, Christians and Muslims coexisted within its limits in a peaceful way.