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Login instagram free9/13/2023 ![]() It comes at a particularly delicate moment for Mexican football, with stadiums in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara all scheduled to host matches at the World Cup in three years’ time. Mexico fans have regularly engaged in homophobic chants previously, usually aimed at the opposition goalkeeper when they take a goal-kick, despite pre-match pleas for it to stop from both the players and the national football federation.Ĭoncacaf, the regional governing body, said that the match was halted at the “referee’s discretion” and will now launch an investigation. There had earlier been multiple other flash points during the game, with fans throwing beer on the pitch and Weston McKennie having his shirt ripped.īoth teams finished the match with only nine players after McKennie, Sergino Dest, Cesar Montes and Gerardo Arteaga were all dismissed. ![]() He had first halted in the 89th minute because of the chants but, with the United States leading 3-0 in Las Vegas, then allowed fewer than eight of the 12 minutes of stoppage time after the chants resumed. The international match between Mexico and the United States – two of the 2026 World Cup hosts – was cut short in chaos on Thursday following repeated homophobic chanting.įifa have already fined Mexico more than $100,000 for homophobic chanting during last year’s World Cup and, after issuing four red and eight yellow cards, referee Ivan Barton ended the match with four minutes remaining following a continuation of the offensive chants.
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