USMNT Vs. Mexico Game Stopped Early Over Crowd’s Anti-Gay Chants

An enormous matchup between the U.S. males’s nationwide soccer staff and Mexico on Thursday night time was stopped early … after followers within the crowd repeatedly chanted anti-gay slurs at gamers.

The shouts could possibly be heard all through the CONCACAF Nations League semifinal contest at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas … and when the sport entered the 89th minute, referee Ivan Barton paused the motion to attempt to get all of it beneath management.

Minutes after play resumed, nonetheless, the chants continued … main Barton to name all of it off.

Following the sport, CONCACAF officers condemned the followers’ actions … whereas American goalkeeper Matt Turner advised reporters all of it “goes against everything that we stand for on our side.”

“We’ve been very vocal and open about the strength of our team being our diversity, the strength of our nation being its diversity,” Turner added. “So, to use something so divisive during a game, a spirited game — and maybe the play sort of set the flares off in the stands, but it has no place in the game.”

As for the motion on the pitch, it, too, was marred. Four pink playing cards had been doled out — as the 2 squads repeatedly acquired into wild skirmishes.

In reality, throughout one of many melees, USMNT midfielder Weston McKennie had his jersey almost ripped off his torso.

“It was a mess,” U.S. captain Christian Pulisic mentioned following the competition. “But I was disappointed in the end. I really wish some of our guys kept their heads a little bit better. It just turned into something that wasn’t this beautiful game that we love.”