Enough is enough.
NYCFC administration has fumbled yet another crucial test and it’s time for wholesale, public changes. We, like hundreds of other supporters, have lost confidence in the NYCFC front office’s ability to fix their workplace or their stadium. Many of the fans will just continue to drift away, as they have since 2016-17. We demand better.
Skyler Badillo’s allegations are serious, substantial, and to be believed. They relate not only to continual sexual harassment by David Villa, but sexual harassment by much of the fitness staff, with the knowledge of seemingly the entire first team and most of the front office. Ms. Badillo was also sexually assaulted within Yankee Stadium’s press room on a match day, resulting in an NYPD complaint, and no public acknowledgement by NYCFC.
To date, no one has been fired, and no public details of how NYCFC will fix this have been forthcoming. NYCFC’s legal counsel is accused of offering a financial settlement in return for the victim hiding the incidents. Everyone who knew about these events and covered them up, and especially the remaining employee accused of serial sexual harassment, needs to be terminated. Publicly. Immediately.
David Villa needs to be publicly condemned and the club needs to move on without him.
NYCFC must demonstrate, through actions and words, that it is a safe home for all supporters, community members, players at all levels, and staff. They have not so far provided this.
While Brad Sims’ repeated statements this year about ridding supporters groups of four years of violent fascist infiltration are welcomed, to date no public statements have shown how this will be accomplished once fans return, nor have we or any other concerned groups received any direct contact from NYCFC on how they will fix these problems, beyond emails from low level social media staff. Suggestions to them that the club must bring in outside anti-racist and anti-extremism training have gone nowhere since February 2020.
We do not yet know which individuals from these groups were banned, for what period, or what these bans entail. We do not know how NYCFC plans to reform supporters groups so that well documented far-right extremists and organized, violent outside groups will be permanently excluded. We do not know what measures will be taken to reform NYCFC gameday operations, who sat on this problem for four years.
This is clearly a pattern of behavior by the NYCFC front office, and it is unacceptable. Fans demand accountability and public, detailed plans to fix these self-inflicted PR disasters.
Take action now while there are still supporters to win back.
— TrueBluesNYCFC supporters collective,
- T. Miles (season ticket holder 2015-19) for the collective.
- Erlantz Aoire, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2015-present).
- J. Williams, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2015-present).
- J. Bogle, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2018-present).
- DR, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2017-present).
- E. M., True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2016-2018).
- C.Harte, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2015-present).
- M. Seligman, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2015-present).
- N.H., True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2016-2018).
- T. McDonough, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2015-present).
- TJF, True Blues NYCFC (season ticket holder 2016-present).
Cosigning Supporters & affiliations
- Co-Signed, DIXON (NYC OG), Bronx Football Social Club, Section 234
- Coco Kerridge, Former Founding Member
- Roddy Russell Jr., NYCFC Nation
- J. Lando (founding cityzen, mom of daughters, human being)
- Carlos Poveda
- Connor Lloyd TR-TRNJ
- Colton Coreschi, Former Season Ticket Holder (2015-2019)
- Aaron Baker
- J. Resnick, Current Season Ticket holder
- Frank F.
- Scott Bednar, Founding Member Season Ticket Holder (2015-present)
- Ryan Dykhouse, Founding Member Season Ticket Holder
- Salvatore Goldblatt
- Luke Bowyer, Portland, OR
- Mick Mellamphy, Season Ticket Holder (2015 – 2019)
- Matt DePrima – Concerned Founding Member/Third Rail
- C. Gibson, Founding Member Season Ticket Holder (2015-present)
- Griffin Atkinson. Day One Supporter
- Kat Hemming, Season Ticket Holder, section 234, Third Rail member
- Ash Barker, Current Season Ticket Holder
- Dylan Bicierro, Yonkers, NY, since 2013
- Brian Rooney, Season Ticket Holder (2017-present)
- Francis Fiordalisi Jr.
- Jeremy Eberhardt, Day 1 Fan
- Adam J. Sontag, Season Ticket Holder (2015-Present), Sec 104
- Yessica Curiel-Montoya
- Doug Condon – Season Ticket Holder
- Jonathan Cornick – Season Ticket Holder (2016-present)
- Mike Clifford – RBNY & CAFC Supporters Club member
- Ethan Rosenbaum, Day 1 Fan
- Anthony James, Season Ticket Holder, Founding Member, and one of the first 3,000 STH’s
- Andrew Hopkins founding member
- J. Li, BK,NY, Season Ticket Holder Day 1 to 2019, “when everything became a shit show”
- Lindsay , Section 234
- Chris Lanceley
- Marcos C., former Season Ticket Holder (2018)
- Evan Jaenichen (Supporter Since 2015)
- Katherine Snedaker – Season Ticket holder from Day 1 to present – 3 seats until this year, now 2… I am losing faith in a club I love…
- Ed Winnick, founding member, Sec 234.
- Malik Shakur, supporter since 2016.
[If you would like to cosign, comment below, email truebluesnycfc@protonmail.com , or dm any TrueBlues folks on social media. We’ll then add your name and any affiliations you wish (for identification purposes only)
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