In an anti-racist campaign that divides America, the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL club has taken a stand alongside his players. But it did not please everyone.
Five years ago, Shahid Khan, a billionaire unknown to the general public, presents his round face and exuberant Victorian mustache in one of Forbes magazine . Pakistano-American emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen, he then appeared as the "face of the American dream". A sixty-one self-made-man became the first member of an ethnic minority who owns an NFL franchise, the Jacksonville Jaguars, in exchange for a check for $ 770 million.
Last week, he was on the front page of the weekly Sports Illustrated. In the midst of a controversy surrounding the NFL's anti-racist protest movement, stirred up by inflammatory statements by Donald Trump, his picture is complemented by protest athletes (basketball players Stephen Curry, LeBron James and soccer player Aaron Rodgers. ..) and Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, under the title: A nation divided, sports united .