Major League Soccer (MLS) Team San Diego FC has announced that it is investing in major stadium operations and safety initiatives to crack the use of the “gay” mantra used by fans. The mantra has commonly used to have been used by fans of the Mexican National Team, and the results are the result of sanctions against the country’s football clubs in the first past.
The plan to tighten the chanting of San Diego FC involves a huge increase in security at Snapdragon Stadium.
The team wrote in its announcement, “The increase in the number of stadium security personnel and deployed in strategically major areas, with an increased presence near the opponent goalkeeper’s section. Criminals will be identified, evicted, and may face additional restrictions,” the team has written in its announcement.
The team is also now giving fans the right to stop, suspend or leave a match on using chanting.
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The fans happy during a game between San Diego FC and St. Louis City at Snapdragon Stadium on March 01, 2025 at San Diego, San Diego, California. (Sean M. Hafi/Getty Images)
Additionally, the team is making major changes in the team communication during the game to discourage chanting and with the first fans.
Stadium employees will now flyer in all seat cups holders who will remind fans that discriminatory language will not be tolerated, the specialty of the message: “Aqui No” / “Not here.” Prior to the kickoff, the team’s CEO Tom Paine, Head Coach Mickey Varas and player Annibal Godoy discouraged the message that discouraged the pre-recorded message.
And during the match, the team will display a visual-in-stadium banner, condemning the message in the section of supporters.
On 1 March, the team’s home opener was recently used during the Saint Louis City. Fans used chanting three times, despite the constant efforts by the stadium employees to chant to stay through the public address system.
Varas condemned fans who used it after that game.
Varas told reporters, “The chanting that was heard tonight is unacceptable.” “It is out of our value system. It does not represent the players, themselves or the club, and it definitely does not represent San Diego or Baja California. It is not a reflection of who we are. We are a loving community, support, and we believe in the power of diversity.”
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The fans happy during a game between San Diego FC and St. Louis City at Snapdragon Stadium on March 01, 2025 at San Diego, San Diego, California. (Sean M. Hafi/Getty Images)
The chanting, which is traditionally used, while an anti -goalkeeper takes a round kick, was born in the city of Guardaljara, the city of Mexican in the early 2000s.
The mantra, which is repeatedly used by the word “Putu” and translated into English into “Purush prostitutes”, was largely unknowingly gone by major football institutions, and in 2004 it was heard in an Olympic qualifier between the US and Mexico.
However, it became more controversial and as the years passed.
In 2019, FIFA introduced its three-step protocol, now used by San Diego FC, designed to prevent supporters from participating in The chanting.
In 2021, all Mexico fans were banned from a pair of World Cup qualifiers due to chanting.
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Fans of San Diego during the MLS match between San Diego FC and St. Louis City SC in San Diego, California on March 01, 2025 at Snapdragon Stadium between San Diego FC and St. Louis City SC. (Sean M. Hafi/Getty Images)
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee announced that the Mexican National Team would have to play their World Cup qualifier match against Jamaica and Canada at an empty stadium that year, when fans used the Costa Rica and USA during the game during the Costa Rika and USA during North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football Nations League. The team was also fined $ 73,000.
The US vs Mexico ConcacAF Nation League matches were suspended in the back-to-back years in 2023 and 2024, when Mexico fans used both times chanting.
Now, chanting has made its way for the MLS rank, and San Diego FC is trying to prevent it from spreading.
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