The media doesn’t identify what the slur is. They just label the fans as homophobic and doesn’t let the reader decide. That is happening more and more on a wide range of behaviors. The media is trying to be the arbiter of right and wrong and being very judgmental.
What is the homophobic chant?
In a practice believed to have started among fans in the early 2000s, Mexican national team fans join in unison to shout a Spanish-language homophobic slur (”p***,” which roughly translates to “gay prostitute”) when an opposing goalkeeper puts the ball into play on a goal kick. The chant is supposedly meant to intimidate the ‘keeper and the opposing team.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/translations/puta/
What does puta mean? The perverts think everything is about them.
FAKE NEWS AGAIN>
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?