The USMNT's soccer game agast Mexi turned VERY ugly Sunday night ... 'e fans the stands yelled anti-gay slurs and also vlently threw objects at players.
Contents:
- HOW ALLEGIANCE TO AN ANTI-GAY FAN CHANT AT MEXI SOCCER GAM MIGHT SK EL TRI'S WORLD CUP FORTUN
- AHEAD OF MEXI MATCH, U.S. SOCCER'S EFFORTS TO BAT AN ANTI-GAY CHANT WILL BE PUT TO THE TT
- U.S. SOCCER SETS PROTOL AGAST ANTI-GAY CHANTS FOR U.S.-MEXI MATCH
- WATCH: MEXIN FANS CHANT ANTI-GAY SLURS, THROW BOTTL AT US MEN’S TEAM
- USMNT VS. MEXI SOCCER MATCH MARRED BY ANTI-GAY CHANTS, VLENT TRASH THROWG
- MEXI SANCTNED BY FIFA FOR RECURRENCE OF FANS' ANTI-GAY CHANT
- ANTI-GAY CHANTS HALT USA-MEXI MEN'S SOCCER MATCH
- FA TELLS CLUBS ANTI-GAY CHANT IS NOW NSIRED BREACH OF L
- U.S. SOCCER FALLY BANS ANTI-GAY CHANTS AT MATCH
- UNED STAT-MEXI MATCH FAL MARRED BY ANTI-GAY CHANT, FANS THROWG OBJECTS ON FIELD
- EXCLIVE: MEXIN SOCCER FERATN WARNS REFS MAY HALT PLAY IF FANS E ANTI-GAY SLUR
- USMNT-MEXI NATNS LEAGUE FAL HALTED FOR ANTI-GAY CHANT, FANS THROWG OBJECTS
HOW ALLEGIANCE TO AN ANTI-GAY FAN CHANT AT MEXI SOCCER GAM MIGHT SK EL TRI'S WORLD CUP FORTUN
Mexin soccer feratn aga urg fans to stop g chant after FIFA hands tought penalty to date rponse to persistent e of anti-gay slur. * soccer anti gay chant *
Mexi's soccer feratn has been sanctned repeatedly by world erng body FIFA recent years for a homophobic chant ed by s fans durg Mexin natnal team gam, whether at home or away.
AHEAD OF MEXI MATCH, U.S. SOCCER'S EFFORTS TO BAT AN ANTI-GAY CHANT WILL BE PUT TO THE TT
A new anti-gay chant policy will be effect for USMNT-Mexi. It will terme U.S. Soccer's effort toward stoppg the rivalry's uglit aspect. * soccer anti gay chant *
Referee Barton took the cisn to abandon the game bee of the homophobic chant.
What is the homophobic chant?
In a practice believed to have started among fans the early 2000s — one outlet highlights a 2004 Olympic qualifier between the USA and Mexi — Mexin natnal team fans jo unison to shout a Spanish-language homophobic slur ("p***, " which roughly translat to "gay prostute") when an opposg goalkeeper puts the ball to play on a goal kick. The argument for years was that the word has multiple cultural meangs Mexi and other Spanish-speakg untri and that is not tend as a homophobic slur when ed by fans a stadium. But there's no gettg around the fact that 's a rogatory term that's meang to the gay muny.
U.S. SOCCER SETS PROTOL AGAST ANTI-GAY CHANTS FOR U.S.-MEXI MATCH
The U.S. Soccer Feratn said will enforce s newly implemented policy agast anti-gay chantg when Uned Stat fac Mexi on Wednday. * soccer anti gay chant *
When the match rumed, the officials add 12 mut of stoppage time, but they only got through seven of them before the referee cid to stop the match early after another loud stallment of the homophobic chant (see highlight qued up to the fal whistle). Conf official has jt told me that the match HAS NOT been abandoned bee of homophobic chant spe fishg 4 mut before the 12 mut of stoppage time were up.
Overnight, CONCACAF released a statement nfirmg is vtigatg the ntued e of homophobic chants by Mexi fans durg last night’s game. What is Mexi dog about the homophobic chant?
WATCH: MEXIN FANS CHANT ANTI-GAY SLURS, THROW BOTTL AT US MEN’S TEAM
The U.S. Men's Soccer Team game agast Mexi was briefly shut down Sunday over wav of anti-gay chants and objects thrown on the field. * soccer anti gay chant *
FIFA sanctns for homophobic chants. In June 2021, FIFA sanctned the Mexin feratn for homophobic chants by Mexin fans at Olympic qualifiers played Guadalajara, Mexi March 2021: a $65, 000 fe and two official home match played behd closed doors.
USMNT VS. MEXI SOCCER MATCH MARRED BY ANTI-GAY CHANTS, VLENT TRASH THROWG
* soccer anti gay chant *
The FIFA Disciplary Commtee also opened separate proceedgs agast Mexi nnectn wh homophobic chants by fans at a iendly agast Iceland played Arlgton, Texas, May 2021. The anti-gay chant was ed durg 2022 World Cup qualifyg home gam agast Canada and Honduras at the Estad Azte.
MEXI SANCTNED BY FIFA FOR RECURRENCE OF FANS' ANTI-GAY CHANT
Mexi will play s next two home gam behd closed doors due to a recurrence of an anti-gay chant durg pre-Olympic qualifyg. * soccer anti gay chant *
Mexi’s natnal team will play s first two home match World Cup qualifyg whout spectators, a penalty for s fans’ e of an anti-gay chant durg last sprg’s pre-Olympic tournament Guadalajara, the untry’s soccer feratn announced at a Mexi Cy news nference gam Mexi will play behd closed doors are agast Jamai on Sept.
There is vigoro bate over whether the chant is rogatory sce the offendg word n have many meangs Spanish, one of which is a slur ed to mean gay Luisa has said that nversatn is meangls. ” Members of Pasión 1927, a Los Angel-based fan group of the Mexin natnal soccer team, share their thoughts on a popular chant that is wily nsired homophobic.
ANTI-GAY CHANTS HALT USA-MEXI MEN'S SOCCER MATCH
Anti-gay chants ed a referee to stop a soccer match between the Uned Stat Men's Natnal Team and Mexi, rultg a U.S. w the CONCACAF Natns League semifal Las Vegas. * soccer anti gay chant *
In fact, the word is a clear, if somewhat semantilly sophistited, anti-gay slur, which is why s e by Mexin fans has been so ntroversial durg this World Cup.
Fans yell puto, which roughly means gay prostute, at the opposg team’s goalkeeper as a tactic to distract him om his task, a mon enough practice all sports. In this se, the chant is a very specific, homophobic double-entendre, playg on the ncept of lettg someone “sre a goal on you.
FA TELLS CLUBS ANTI-GAY CHANT IS NOW NSIRED BREACH OF L
You see where this is gog: The embarrassment of allowg a goal your is ak to beg on the receivg end of anal sex—you know, like a gay guy. ” Apparently, faggot and gay whore are not que the same, though the malice of their tent seems difficult to separate.
The problem here is that a gay slur is beg sanctned on the world stage by an ternatnal anizatn, a natnal soccer team, and an entire culture. Mexi, Lat Ameri, their sports dtri, and their societi uld’ve taken the puto oral as a moment to reckon wh their homophobia. Have rporated an anti-gay slur to a chant aimed at opposg goalkeepers.
"Soccer self is a medium for change, and we need to regnize how impactful language n be, " said Janelly Farias, a fenr on Mexi's women's natnal team who is gay. "When people are g homophobic language, whether 's tentnal or not, n be very trimental. In ristg to cease and sist over the years, fans have argued that the chant is a part of Mexi's sports culture, and that bears no anti-gay bent when ed 's more, the perceived hypocrisy of FIFA policg the behavr of Mexi fans the stands but remag silent on laws opprsive to LGBTQ+ muni Rsia and Qatar -- the most recent World Cup host and the next le, rpectively -- has also fueled ristance.
U.S. SOCCER FALLY BANS ANTI-GAY CHANTS AT MATCH
"Clearly, people aren't chantg at goalkeepers and attackg them for thkg they're gay.
UNED STAT-MEXI MATCH FAL MARRED BY ANTI-GAY CHANT, FANS THROWG OBJECTS ON FIELD
"It has a nasty, homophobic nnotatn any sense. For many gay men, 's the last word they hear before they're attacked, or killed. "I have gay iends, and talkg to them about opened my ey.
Those efforts have foced on the potential on-field nsequenc yet make no mentn of the slur's anti-gay ntext. "But prev statements om top officials, players and ach later tasked wh askg fans to stop the chant portrayed a culture at odds wh the signatn of the chant as anti-gay. "I don't see as homophobic, or offensive.
EXCLIVE: MEXIN SOCCER FERATN WARNS REFS MAY HALT PLAY IF FANS E ANTI-GAY SLUR
"In that moment, you're not thkg about disrpectg someone or sultg homosexuals.
In dog so, the feratn ed a fense that Mexi fans monly rece: The word is employed not as an anti-gay slur, but rather as a tool to distract the goalkeeper to an errant kick.
USMNT-MEXI NATNS LEAGUE FAL HALTED FOR ANTI-GAY CHANT, FANS THROWG OBJECTS
"I'm glad somethg is fally beg done about this, but I thk we n be more direct by sayg this is a homophobic chant and be very head-on about . Meanwhile, activists and some of Mexi's own ele players ntue to lobby the FMF to embrace a more ank discsn on homophobia and machismo orr to rete fans and end the chant once and for all.
Last year, a group of fans sued the operators of Soldier Field Chigo over the repeated e of the homophobic “puto” chant durg a 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup match between the U.