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Fined by FIFA, Mexico Tries, Again, to Banish a Homophobic Chant by Its Fans
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Mexico fans in Moscow are being warned to behave by their federation and their team.CreditFacundo Arrizabalaga/EPA, via Shutterstock
MOSCOW — Mexico’s soccer federation and at least two of its team’s star players took to social media on Thursday in a renewed campaign to banish a homophobic chant that has been a fixture at the team’s matches for years.
The effort came one day after FIFA fined Mexico $10,000 for its fans’ use of the slur “puto” at its World Cup opener on Sunday, and as world soccer’s governing body again warned Mexico of more serious consequences if the chanting did not stop.
“To all Mexican fans in the stadiums, don’t shout ‘puto’,” the star striker Javier Hernández wrote on his Instagram account, posting it in the less prominent Stories feature instead of his regular feed. “Let’s not risk another sanction.”
Another player, the midfielder Andrés Guardado, who served as the team’s captain in its first game here, also urged fans to reject the term.
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“Let us show that as Mexicans our values are of respect and cordiality,” he wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning. “We have been received with open arms, it is time to show that we are excellent visitors.”
Mexico’s soccer federation also sent out messages urging fans to stop using the chant through its Spanish- and English-language Twitter accounts. “Let’s show the world we have the best fans!!” the latter posted in an emoji-heavy Tweet that also included a warning: “Avoid getting your Fan ID taken away from you.”
FIFA’s statement announcing the ban raised the specter of further penalties for Mexico’s team at the World Cup, declaring its “zero-tolerance approach to discrimination,” and ESPN reported that stadium monitors would begin to identify and eject fans who took part.
But FIFA’s warnings may lack teeth: it fined Mexico a dozen times for “homophobic chanting” during the World Cup qualifying cycle, and last year it even gave referees the power to warn fans over the stadium public address system and to stop matches if the fans persisted. But those procedures were not used at Sunday’s match, in which Mexico defeated Germany, 1-0.
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Concacaf, the regional confederation of which Mexico is a member, rolled out its own anti-discrimination plan last year, but a day later the chant was heard loud and clear at a Mexico game in Denver.
“It has become our battle cry,” one fan told the Mexican newspaper Reforma on the eve of the World Cup. The newspaper said that even in the Moscow airport the “puto” chant was rising up among arriving fans, and it has been heard on the city’s streets and in its subways since the start of the tournament.
“Puto,” roughly translated as “male prostitute,” is a slur often hurled at gay men in Mexico, but fans who chant it say they use it out of the more generalized meaning of “coward” (or, in the adjective form, simply an unpleasant thing.)
After looking the other way as the chant became a tradition at games in Mexico but also elsewhere in Latin America, Mexico has tried, unsuccessfully, to eradicate it in recent years. Hernández, known as Chicharito, condemned it in a public service announcement in 2016. Hashtags were created to raise awareness of its offense and put an end to it. And after a massacre in an Orlando nightclub popular with gay Latinos in 2016, commentators urged fans to abandon it once and for all.
But still it is heard at nearly every Mexico match: a crescendo of “Eeehhhhhhhhhh …” before every goal kick and then the roar of “Puto!” as soon as the ball is struck.
Eh Puto: Mexico vs VenezuelaCreditVideo by Marcos Kirsch
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The federation’s ongoing efforts to stop the chant even came up in a set of so-called “rules of civility” it published before the tournament for fans going to Russia. And last month, one of Mexico’s largest beer companies, Grupo Modelo, introduced a campaign for its Victoria beer by suggesting fans shout “Putin!” instead of “puto.” The campaign was quickly abandoned, however, after widespread condemnation — including from the Russian ambassador to Mexico.
“We are not so stupid to understand it’s a play on words,” said the ambassador, Eduard Malayán, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.
Randal C. Archibold contributed reporting from New York.
A stunning blond beauty dubbed the World Cup’s “sexiest fan” has been revealed to be a “swinging” porn star.
Photos of Natalya Nemchinova were beamed around the world after she was spotted sporting a skimpy white “Russia” top inside Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium for the opening game of the World Cup against Saudi Arabia.
The local beauty rapidly received widespread acclaim for her looks, and eagle-eyed fans soon tracked down her true identity.
Online detectives quickly discovered she was an adult film actress — after zooming in on her Fan ID ahead of Russia’s match against Egypt on Tuesday night.
They then discovered she has appeared in X-rated movies under such aliases as Natali Nemtchinova, Natalia Andreeva, Delilah G, Danica, Amanda, Asya and Annabell.
Adult websites describe her as an “uninhibited” model and a star of swinger parties who has appeared in photo shoots, and both soft and hardcore movies since her X-rated debut in 2016.
Beaming at the camera, she waved a pair of white, blue and red Russian flags while proudly wearing a traditional Russian headdress.
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Her stunning looks earned her the tag the “hottest World Cup fan” by media and fans around the globe.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page B9 of the New York edition with the headline: Mexico Players Plead With Fans, Again, to Banish Homophobic Chant. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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