An anti-gay slur\u2019s at San Diego FC\u2019s home debut prompted a strong response from the club. They\u2019re not the first ones forced to address a tired trope<\/p>\n
It all started as a bit of a joke, just not a funny one. Now infamous enough to be known as \u2018the chant\u2019 or \u2018the p-word\u2019 even in English, historical accounts say the homophobic chant that has remained persistent in Mexican soccer began in Guadalajara. Atlas fans were infuriated by goalkeeper Oswaldo S\u00e1nchez\u2019s departure from their team and his eventual return to their rivals Guadalajara. That\u2019s when they tweaked a traditional gridiron football ritual, building up noise before belting out an anti-gay slur whenever S\u00e1nchez took a goal kick.<\/p>\n
The chant appeared again \u2013 this time with more venom \u2013 at a game between USA and Mexico in a 2004 pre-Olympic tournament in Guadalajara. Mexico fans were still smarting from El Tri\u2019s loss to the US at the 2002 World Cup. That led to 60,000 Tapatios directing the slur at US goalkeeper DJ Countess during Mexico\u2019s 4-0 win. The ugly trend has continued, and grown, despite campaigns from the Mexican football federation, Fifa fines<\/a>, and efforts from Liga MX, who named a full season after an alternative chant in 2021.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An anti-gay slur\u2019s at San Diego FC\u2019s home debut prompted a strong response from the club. They\u2019re not the first ones forced to address a tired trope It all started as a bit of a joke, just not a funny one. Now infamous enough to be known as \u2018the chant\u2019 or \u2018the p-word\u2019 even in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}