The two old rivals meet on Friday night in Columbus but tensions are raised after an election that has seen incendiary anti-Latino rhetoric
Tensions ahead of an always-charged USA-Mexico soccer game this Friday have suddenly been magnified by the election of Donald Trump as America’s 45th president.
Trump ran a scorched earth campaign that openly denigrated immigrants, and called for the mass deportation of Mexicans from the United States. His incendiary rhetoric – Trump called Mexican immigrants, among other things, “rapists” – could make for an ugly backdrop to rivalry that has already had its fair share of nasty incidents. There is a real fear that the rhetoric Trump used could make its way into the stands and streets around the stadium, targeting Mexican fans.
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