{"id":472725,"date":"2026-06-02T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:51:08","slug":"mexico-federation-loses-appeal-against-fifa-fines-for-fans-homophobic-chant-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/472725\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico federation loses appeal against Fifa fines for fans\u2019 homophobic chant | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mexican soccer federation on Tuesday lost its latest appeal against Fifa punishments for fans chanting an anti-gay slur at opponents\u2019 players.<\/p>\n

The latest ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) in a series of Mexico v Fifa appeal cases over more than 10 years comes as Mexico prepare to host South Africa in the World Cup<\/a> opener on 11 June at Azteca Stadium, a venue where the chant is often heard.<\/p>\n

The chant, a one-word slur that means male prostitute in Spanish, usually occurs when the opposing goalkeeper is taking a goal kick.<\/p>\n

It went viral in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and was heard again at the next editions in 2018 in Russia and 2022 in Qatar. Mexico<\/a> fans have defied requests and education programs by the federation aiming to control the abuse.<\/p>\n

The latest case at Cas followed Fifa prosecutions of incidents at games in 2024 against Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil and the United States. The chant was heard by anti-discrimination monitors who also will work for Fifa at the World Cup\u2019s 104 games in Mexico, the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

Cas said its judges upheld Fifa-imposed fines totaling 140,000 Swiss francs ($178,000). They lifted a sanction of closing part of a stadium at a Fifa-organized game such as the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The court said its judges at a hearing in Miami in March weighed the Mexican federation mitigation that it had \u201cput measures in place since 2015 to educate, prevent and eradicate the chant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [the judges] observed that the conduct of the fans was collective and widespread, and not merely a one-off occurrence,\u201d Cas said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Noting the \u201cunique nature\u201d of the challenge facing Mexican soccer officials, the court said the federation should not escape liability.<\/p>\n

Mexico will also host World Cup group-stage games against South Korea in Guadalajara and the Czech Republic at the Azteca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mexican soccer federation on Tuesday lost its latest appeal against Fifa punishments for fans chanting an anti-gay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-472725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}