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'I don't want to be here' - Onuoha wants Real Salt Lake exit after owner's Black Lives Matter rant

Real Salt Lake defender Nedum Onuoha has said he does not want to play for the club anymore after owner Dell Loy Hansen ripped his team for boycotting their game on Wednesday night.

RSL did not play their match against Los Angeles FC, part of a larger movement across American sports in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday.

Games across the NBA, WNBA, MLB and MLS were called off as players protested an incident in which Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot seven times in the back and left seriously injured.