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FIFA VTIGATG: MEXI BOOTED OM THE WORLD CUP AS FANS CHANT A GAY SLUR QATAR

Wilkson, an out gay athlete, helped New Zealand to s first-ever WWC w, all ont of a home crowd. * gay soccer goal *

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.

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.

REFEREE ENDS USMNT ROUT OVER MEXI EARLY AMID ANTI-GAY CHANTS

* gay soccer goal *

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.

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.