Former French star and current Impact Montreal coach Thierry Henry knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds yesterday, Thursday, at the start of his team's match against the New England Revolution in the American Football League, in support of the Black Lives Mater (Black Life Mission) move in a salute to the black American citizen George Floyd Who was killed by a white policeman in Minneapolis last May.
"I don't know what we're going to be allowed to support (Black Lives Mater). There is what I want to do, but keep it to myself," said Henry, whose team lost the 0-0 match.
This period of time became a symbol of police violence, after a policeman knelt on the neck of an ailing Floyd before his death, while investigators estimated the actual time to be 7 minutes and 46 seconds.
Henry, the former Arsenal star and Barcelona, ​​the former Spanish, wrote a letter in his account on the Instagram website in early June, in which he called for change to end injustice and racist violence.
The American League resumed its activities on Wednesday after stopping in March, after only two phases since the start of the new season, due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
The League decided to complete it in a World Cup-style format with the participation of all 26 clubs, before excluding Dallas and then Nashville, which prompted it to adjust the distribution of teams by four teams in each of the six groups.
The new, exceptional form of the league begins with the group stage and then the elimination roles until the final, with the matches being held at the World Disney Complex in Orlando, Florida.

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