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Nate Abaurrea
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The 2000 Kansas City Wizards will forever hold a spot in my heart. They featured one Francisco “Jarvy” Gomez, a dear friend from my hometown of Watsonville, California, a Project 40 player who was eating chile verde at my dad’s apartment days before he signed for KC.💙
Around this time, a young woman named Carina Moreno was lighting CA boxing rings ablaze, hailing proudly from Watsonville. There’s not a lot of feel good stories out of our town. Having Jarvy & Carina to look up to as a kid was priceless. Great to be reminded of them here in KC.
No matter how much folks want to perpetuate the idea that circumstance dictates capability, it doesn’t. (F*** those folks.) Don’t ever discount hardship, but also don’t ever think that the people who look down on you and where you come from can stop your dreams. They can’t. 🖤
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A totally unbiased, completely neutral edition of the Mexican Radio Soccer Minute, airing today on More FM here in San Diego and all over Baja California. #Klopp 🥂🏆 #LetsTalkAboutSixBaby🎶 #YNWA ❤️ #ScouseMexicanRadio🎙
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Yo! Thanks for all the continuous love. Picked up a few new followers over the weekend, and with all the kind messages I received from folks I’d never met, I thought it‘d be polite to briefly introduce myself in a short thread, and tell you a little about my professional work. 🎙
While I will never “STICK TO SPORTS,” I do make a living as a writer and sportscaster. “Have mic, have pen, will travel,” has become a life motto. A main reason I moved to San Diego in 2016 was access to Tijuana, home to @xolos_en of #LigaMXeng. I then found love at first sight.
In 2018, I became the first ever English Language Radio Voice of @Xolos, Club Tijuana the only team in Mexican Soccer to have LIVE transmissions in Spanish and English. The broadcasts air on More FM, a duel-national bilingual station out of TJ. (Here’s my Mexican Radio debut.)
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A quick thread to y’all:

First off, THANK YOU for the support re: Friday’s incident at the border with CBP. I’ve never felt a stronger backing, which is nice, as I’ve also never been inundated with tweets calling me a “snowflake,” “wimpy bitch” or “lying fame-hunter” until now.
It’s oh so important to remind ourselves why I shared this all too common story in the first place: TO HELP PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENINGN TO OTHERS! Especially those with less means of defending themselves. Steps are being taken, and I will update y’all as the situation progresses.
I made a major point in my story on how my experience and sense of violation that I felt was merely a small taste of what People of Color have and continue to go thru on the daily in 🇺🇸, and how brown skinned people have been targeted by CBP long before the Trumpian era began.
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