Posted on 06/17/2023 7:43:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
On Wednesday, the longtime soccer rivalry between the U.S. men's national team and Mexico will begin a new chapter. For the first time in match involving these two teams, a U.S. Soccer Federation policy that bans discriminatory chanting will be in effect. When the game at StateFarm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, kicks off, it will then be revealed just how serious the USSF is about rooting out an ugly aspect that has long stained the rivalry.
At issue has been the anti-gay slur in Spanish that fans yell at games when there is an opposition goal kick. That slur is a vulgar insult that is considered offensive toward the LGBTQIA+ community. Since the 2014 World Cup, the Mexican football federation (FMF) -- which oversees the country's national teams -- has been repeatedly fined by FIFA due to the chant's prevalence at Mexico matches.
The FMF -- with the help of its own players -- has repeatedly made public service announcements to stamp out the chant, but it still continues to be heard. Last January, FIFA fined FMF $108,000 for chanting heard at the 2022 World Cup during El Tri's games against Saudi Arabia and Poland. FIFA also previously forced Mexico to play a World Cup qualifier in Sept. 2021 against Jamaica without fans as punishment for its failure to stem the chant.
The Mexican national team has long been a huge draw in the U.S., often playing to near-capacity crowds in NFL stadiums. As such, it's common to hear the chant at El Tri matches held stateside. Now U.S. Soccer's policy, approved by the USSF board in May 2022, will be the latest attempt to thwart it.
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It also means the “F” word.
Some usage examples here (scroll down for the better ones):
https://www.dictionary.com/e/translations/puto/
I am a proud member of the LGBFJB community.
"is considered offensive toward the LGBTQIA+ community"
When I was a kid, if we said, “butt”, we got backhanded by our parents.
I know “maricon” as faggot.
Spanish, a Romance language, has grammatical gender represented in the endings of words, and so a female prostitute is puta in Spanish while a male one is puto. Male prostitution has been historically associated with gay activity, which is likely how puto became a homophobic slur along the lines of gay or fag, though it may also have the force of bitch. Also like the English gay and fag, puto can demean a man as cowardly due to homophobic stereotypes of gay men.
This is an old article, from April. US played Mexico on Thursday night in Las Vegas in the Nations League semifinal and the ref ended the game 7 minutes early due to the “Puto” chant from the Mexican fans. They were already frustrated as the US dominated 3-0.
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Correct. We were aware of the chant. But we were not able to stop it, obviously. Mexico will be one of the co-hosts for FIFA World Cup in 2026.
Puta/Puto means prostitute. Only the homos think it means homo. That would be maricón.
“Why left compelling speech...”
It’s their world, a la 1984, the novel by Orwell.
Puto is widely used too. As it pato, marica, culero, and joto.
Spanish has many ways of calling someone a faggot.
“The Mexican national team has long been a huge draw in the U.S., often playing to near-capacity crowds in NFL stadiums.”
... and one would be hard pressed to find any ‘English as a first language’ person in said crowd.
One enterprising comment I saw recently was that the hispanics were originally shouting ‘boot!’ when the opposing goalie kicked the ball. That shout morphed into ‘p**a’ over time.
Possible I suppose. One thing I do know is that when my boys were playing soccer it seemed that if we were playing an all hispanic team some of those parents seemed annoyed that there were any caucasian kids on the pitch at all. Some also got extremely annoyed when their team lost which was often as my two older sons played on teams that were very well coached (one coach was hispanic). Both teams went to state-wide playoffs several times.
Since “puta” means female whore, then puto means “male whore” or “man who sells himself for homosexual sex”
Put a sock in it PUTO!
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