Club Deportivo Palestino

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Club Deportivo Palestino is a professional football club based in the city of Santiago, Chile and plays in the Primera División de Chile. Palestino was founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants, and the club has maintained a strong symbolic connection to Palestinian identity, using the colours of the Palestinian flag in its kit and incorporating a map of pre-1948 Palestine into its logo and uniforms. It is known for public displays of solidarity with Palestinians, including fans chanting pro-Palestinian slogans and players once entering the field wearing keffiyehs. In 2014, the team was fined and banned by Chile’s football association for altering the number "1" on jerseys to resemble the outline of Mandatory Palestine. The club has won two national titles and reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores in 1979. The club is supported by Chile’s Palestinian community, the largest outside the Arab world, and Palestino also engages in community outreach, supporting women’s football and...

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