‘Stick to sports’ is an admonishment often hurled at athletes presenting opinions about politics. Rather than choosing to stay silent, several US national team players expressed opinions about the executive order that President Donald Trump signed on Friday banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.
The order prevents all citizens from Libya, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the US for 90 days and bans all refugees from coming in for 120 days while prohibiting all Syrian refugees permanently. In response, many US soccer players and US Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati commented on the order.