Author: Joel Aceves

“For the Mexican, life is the possibility of “chingar” or being “chingado.” Meaning, to humiliate, punish, offend or the other way around.” – Octavio Paz

During the 2014 FIFA World Cup a group of bored social justice warriors, with no real causes to occupy their time with,  decided to target Mexico’s “puto” chant heard during the opposing keepers kick-off. They claimed the chant was hurtful to homosexuals.

FIFA, the governing body of soccer which has awarded their next two World Cups to countries where homosexuality is a crime, took note and began sanctioning the Mexican Football Federation in hopes of eradicating the chant.

For Mexico’s second group match against Croatia a Tricolor fan displayed a banner (pictured above) that trolled FIFA with it’s “whoever reads this is a puto” statement. A clever banner that exemplifies what it means to be Mexican; to chingar.

To sanction the chant is to turn it into a forbidden pleasure that the Tri faithful enjoyed two fold in Mexico’s recent World Cup qualifier against Canada at the Azteca stadium.

Chingar is the main reason why fans chant the word to rustle the opposing keeper or his fans. And we can care less what meaning you give the word as a good time is had.

On that note who is a puto: he is the man selling his tender ass to make ends meet…the girl that will sleep with everyone except you…your pal after he slept with your girlfriend…yourself after running away from a fight…and the opposing goalie who rejects our teams advances.

In essence at one point or another we are all putos. While the meaning does contain the idea of aggression isn’t that what football is all about; defeating your opponents by penetrating their goal.

While the PC Police might have good intentions they are also imposing their ideals on a culture that celebrates by calling each other sons of a whore.

“¡Viva Mexico, hijos de la chingada!”

As Mexico begins preparing for the Rio 2016 Olympics head coach Raul ‘Potro’ Gutierrez believes that the Tricolor can repeat as medalist. “Mexico is favorite to win Gold along with Brazil and Argentina simply because they are defending champions,” Gutierrez told reporters before boarding a flight to Portugal where the Tricolor will play preparation matches against the host country and Japan.

“We have been preparing for five years so that the level of Mexican football can be taken into account and now I believe that possibility (of winning Gold) is considered,” added a confident Gutierrez. “Ever since we began this process we have talked about defending the gold medal and we continue to have the same idea.

To achieve the feat Gutierrez will  be hoping to count on the experience of PSV midfielder Andres Guardado. “Guardado wants to go to the Olympics, but before that he must win the league championship therefore we must cheer for PSV,” joked the Mexico boss. Still, Gutierrez is aware that in order to count on Mexico’s veteran European based players he will depend on how they end their season.

“It all depends on the clubs. If we are talking about the European based players then we must see in what place they finish in their respective leagues in August and then we can begin to take players into account, we will see how they finish their tourneys before making decisions.” In the meanwhile the U-23’s European tour will serve as excellent preparation.

“These are preparation games where we will continue to evaluate international competition, games against teams of high quality against squads that qualified for the Olympic games, and with the idea of continuing to mature as a team,” finalized Gutierrez.