The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) has announced a new protocol to deal with the pervasive homophobic chants present at both Liga MX and Mexican national team games.
The chant has become increasingly controversial, with opinions split regarding how offensive it actually is. Fans using the chant have long defended it as not homophobic, but merely the equivalent of the English term “bitch” (which, of course, carries misogynistic connotations in turn), while organizations such as CONAPRED, a Mexican anti-discriminatory body, denounce it as unequivocally homophobic.
FMF has apparently decided that the bad press (and continual fines from FIFA) mean the chant needs to stop – debate about its interpretation aside – and they are finally taking concrete steps to try to eradicate it. FMF president Yon de Luisa noted that with FIFA set to implement a three-step anti-discrimination procedure at the start of qualifying for the 2020 World Cup, “if we don’t resolve this problem before the World Cup qualifiers for Qatar 2020, we’d be putting ourselves at risk of being punished by point deductions and, in the worst-case scenario, missing out on the World Cup.”
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