Soccer League Permits Sikhs To Play Wearing Patkas

The Sikh-American Legal Defense Fund yesterday issued a press release on a ruling last month that now allows players in the Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Youth Soccer League to play soccer while wearing a patka-- a Sikh religious head covering. The State of Pennsylvania Referee Association said that the "Secretary General of the United States Soccer Federation has given permission to those bound by religious law to wear such head coverings, usually a turban or yarmulke."