Dallas Soccer Star Reggie Cannon Calls Fans “Disgusting” for Booing and Chanting “USA!” as Players Knelt for National Anthem

Gateway Pundit ^ | 08/13/2020 | Kristinn Taylor

[SeekAndFind]

Several soccer fans out of a crowd of about 3,000 in attendance booed and chanted “USA!” at an MLS game Wednesday night at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas between FC Dallas and Nashville SC as players and refs knelt in unison for the playing of the national anthem before the game. In a post-game press conference, Dallas star Reggie Cannon went off on fans for chanting “USA!” and booing the players, calling the fans “disgusting” and whining that his team has been through “absolute hell” the past six months because of the pandemic. Cannon ranted for over two minutes about the booing of the players for kneeling in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Cannon said the league had turned down a request by players to not play the anthem. Dallas lost 1-0.

Excerpts from Cannon’s rant attacking booing fans:

“I think it was disgusting. I think it was absolutely disgusting. You got fans booing you for people taking a stand for what they believe in and millions of other people support this cause…”

“Unfortunately it was played during these times when we asked for the anthem not to be played. It pissed me off that you can’t even have support from your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me…”

“…The last six months have been absolute hell for us. Absolute hell. Because We have to watch other people play soccer, and we’re just sitting home unfortunately contracting COVID from the unfortunate situations that we were put in…”

“We had someone chanting “USA!” when they don’t understand what kneeling means…”

Video part one:

I asked @ReggieCannon15 about this moment, and how we felt to have his fans booing them and throwing objects as a result. This was his response: https://t.co/UrY8U4Ofrz pic.twitter.com/OZWaBpP1BR

— Angel Madison Franco (@angelmadison_) August 13, 2020

Part two:

(Had to split because of twitter)

Part 2: pic.twitter.com/O4gc0ofsCH

— Angel Madison Franco (@angelmadison_) August 13, 2020

Text of remarks:

Full Reggie quote on tonight's indecent regarding some crowd behavior. pic.twitter.com/aD681hMn1F

— Nico (@nicomx18) August 13, 2020

There is also a report a fan was ejected for throwing a bottle of water (or beer) while the players were kneeling:

Right, a small handful of “people” booed – such morons can go do one. pic.twitter.com/qQ0vg22YkF

— Oscar Carter 🌹🐍 (@Krosswise5) August 13, 2020

Dude wearing a cowboy hat DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM throws a beer because players are kneeling during the national anthem…..

— SadFCDFans (@sadfcdfans) August 13, 2020

The coup de grace – a Black security guard got him up out of there. 😊 pic.twitter.com/VBvtbu7cud

— Oscar Carter 🌹🐍 (@Krosswise5) August 13, 2020

[HotHunt]

".... It’s disrespectful that some fans didn’t respect his expression of disrespect for America...."

Bingo. You nailed it. Best quote of the thread.

[SE Mom]

Listen up, brat.

Absolute hell is families who couldn’t sit with people they love while they were dying of this virus.

Absolute hell is millions laid of from jobs, people losing their business with no prospect of reopening.

Absolute hell is countless people people getting depressed amd committing suicide in despair.

Other people get to DISAGREE with you and your ideas. They get to do it vocally.

Grow up, deal with it.

[jmacusa]

Hiya Kearny. Growing up in the old home town we knew what soccer was long before anyone else in America knew what it was.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

How dare Americans chant USA.

[shadeaud]

I only kneel for God!!!!!!!!!!! Kiss my ass you overpaid neanderthals.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So he’s a poor spoiled athlete. He’d be a disgusting POS if he was on welfare.

[JParris]

Point of order: It is not “your own stadium.” It belongs to the taxpayers, you know, the ones that buy tickets and were booing....

[DennisR]

“…The last six months have been absolute hell for us. Absolute hell. Because We have to watch other people play soccer, and we’re just sitting home unfortunately contracting COVID from the unfortunate situations that we were put in…”

Excuse me while I go get my violin that is 0.001mm in length.

[Lopeover]

Have no idea who this guy is. I don’t watch or follow European football.

[SmokingJoe]

Soccer stadiums in Europe regularly seat 40,000 50,000 60,000 and even higher for a match.
3,000 in a stadium for a major league soccer game in a stadium is pretty pathetic.

[SmokingJoe]

“I think it was disgusting. I think it was absolutely disgusting. You got fans booing you for people taking a stand for what they believe in and millions of other people support this cause…”

Is this boy retarded?
This fool is taking the knee “ for what he believes in”, but then the fans who actually pay his salary can't take a stand for what they believe in?
On what planet is that?

[RJS1950]

Poor little pimple on the ass of time. Keep it up and you’ll have carboard cutouts of fans in the stands like MLB.

[Bshaw]

That BOOOO-ing will grow in magnitude and culminate in a Trump landslide in November.

I FEEL IT!

[joma89]

Why do white people give money to these racist athletes? It really shows how ignorant so many people are.

JoMa

[ConservaTeen]

Soccer: The sport played by girly men who is afraid of flag football!!😀🇺🇸

[kearnyirish2]

I knew the sport wasn’t going to take off when the “highlights” were just shots that almost went in - in a game that last 1/2 longer than many others (90 vs. 60 minutes).

[kearnyirish2]

How is everything?

Yes, it was popular here for a long time - I remember my parents hosting the players from Scotland when we were young.

[kearnyirish2]

I’m not sure many white people (or any others) give much money to the American soccer league. Maybe in Seattle, where they can virtue-signal by pretending they’re more “Euro-weenie” than the rest of the country, but otherwise - I rarely see MLS apparel on anyone (and I live one town north of the Red Bulls stadium in NJ).

[ealgeone]

What junior doesn’t understand is the fans who were booing were expressing what they believed in.

[jmacusa]

I’m doing ok. Hows by you? My two older brothers who are in their ‘60s played soccer in Kearny from the time they were teenagers. My Dad played soccer when he was a kid in St. Cecilia’s in the late ‘40s. And my grandfather played soccer in East Newark as a young man prior to WW1. Americans make me laugh when they suddenly act like soccer is this hot new thing.