Posted on 06/16/2023 3:19:01 AM PDT by Libloather
The United States beat Mexico 3-0 on Thursday night to reach the CONCACAF Nations League final against Canada - but the game descended into chaos.
Four players were ejected and the match was cut short by the referee after repeated homophobic chants.
The referee also showed eight yellow cards, fans threw beers onto the field of play and Weston McKennie's shirt was ripped.
The USMNT and Mexico each finished with nine players after McKennie, Sergino Dest, Cesar Montes and Gerardo Arteaga received red cards in a fiery second half.
'These are rivalry games. These are derby games. Things like this happen across the world and in no way am I embarrassed,' B.J. Callaghan said after his first game as US interim coach.
'It comes from a good place. They care about each other so much in that locker room that they're standing up for each other. Sometimes does it have an issue where we take a red card? Yeah, but when you know where it comes from, you can accept it and it's a learning lesson for us.'
Play was halted in the 90th minute because of homophobic chants. When action resumed, 12 minutes of stoppage time were signaled but resumed chants caused Barton to end the match in the eighth minute added minute.
FIFA fined Mexico 100,000 Swiss francs ($108,000) in January for anti-gay chants by fans at two games.
'In terms of the chant, I want to make it very clear first and foremost, for our beliefs and our culture, it has no place in the game,' Callaghan said. 'It has no place in our value system.'
Mexico fans have routinely engaged in homophobic chants - specifically a chant using the word 'puto', an anti-gay slur in Spanish...
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Just remember “Socks” - ‘Eso si que es.’
We should have beaten Germany in the quarters. That may have been the best game the US ever played in the WC, although they didn’t win.
Any time I see El Tri lose a game is 110% fine with me!
It’s sad because if when the US and Mexico play in a US stadium, it seems like well over half the stadium is rooting for Mexico, waving Mexican flags, etc.
Yep, it was a great game. We had a pretty good team that year.
The thing is, it’s not that unusual.
When England used to play Scotland at Wembley, it was overwhelmingly Scottish fans in the stands.
Been that way for a good long time. It’s gotten much worse.
And puta means?
Prostitute or whore.
I assume it's puto. It means *aggot. But if FIFA and other organizations ban the word, the fans are going to use it more often now. Yankee fans and Red Sox fans insulted each other with offensive slurs at each other all the time so now we're censoring speech at a sports game?
Some crowd should start chanting “white male” when a black female basketball player is shooting a free throw and see what happens.
LOL!
Not allowed. All the sports leagues are woke.
Seems like people are missing the point here. It’s like thinking that Putin invaded Ukraine because of homosexuality.
The Mexicans were acting like jerks, and we beat them at their national sport (I suppose they might be able to beat us at baseball sometime, though).
She’s hot as a pepper and smooth as a Mexican brew
That’s one song you won’t hear on the radio anymore.
She was hot as Georgia asphalt
when the A-crowd came to adore her brains.
(Sorry, couldn’t help myself.)
I have always understood puta to mean whore, and puto to mean a guy whore, which could be said to be a faggot. Slightly different meaning than someone who is homosexual, but one who engages in prostitution by whoring themselves out.
A better word is Homomisia. A REVULSION of all things queer.
Also works for islamophobia and transphobia. A REVULSION of both.
I learned that word from a FReeper here several years back.
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