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Colorado Rapids midfielder and 2013 MLS Rookie of the Year Dillon Powers was announced as an ambassador in the Athlete Ally program yesterday.
Joining numerous other players in Major League Soccer and the National Women’s Soccer League, Powers said in the Athlete Ally statement:
…I think sports have always provided a powerful platform from which social issues can be supported and examples can be set. So supporting LGBT equality in sport is important because it can successfully affect social change.
But lest that be his only contribution to the gay community yesterday, Powers was also part of the Rapids’ April Fools Day fun, posing in some retro soccer kits that featured fringe and some very short shorts. The uniforms are a throwback to the Colorado Caribous of the NASL who spend one year in Denver before being moved to Atlanta by an ownership group including Ted Turner.
Enough of the April Fools teasing Colorado; we want to see Dillon Powers sporting this look on the pitch!
“I’m proud that for this day, we’re the only true Caribous of Colorado.” – @PowerHour5 http://t.co/z2zlTRhbQC pic.twitter.com/gDKkqxsNVe
— Colorado Rapids (@ColoradoRapids) April 1, 2014
Bravo, Dillon Powers, on both accounts!
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