Fifa is researching claimed homophobic serenades by Mexico fans amid the 1-0 World Cup prevail upon guarding champions Germany on Sunday. Sunday’s serenades appeared to be coordinated at Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) was fined nine times for supporters’ homophobic droning amid the qualifying effort. It has over and again requested that fans forgo utilizing the slurs.
Javier Ruiz Galindo, leader of the National House of Mexico for fans in Moscow, said the serenade could be seen in “numerous ways”.
“It’s not really intended to affront some individual,” he said. “We have been requested that multiple occassions not do it so we ought to be conscious,” he told the BBC.
In November, the FMF won an interest against two Fifa fines for the serenade – which includes the Spanish word for a male whore – yet were cautioned “harsher approvals” would be forced in the event that it was rehashed.
Football’s hostile to separation association the Fare Network says “has a more broad heterosexist meaning, and especially in a football setting is utilized as a disparaging and homophobic serenade, alluding to gay men and a disdainful way”.