Dozens of Mexican fans watching Mexico’s second match of the World Cup they are hosting were denied a crucial celebration because of a technical failure at a bar in Mexico. The incident happened overnight between Thursday and Friday, during Mexico’s game against South Korea, at a local venue that drew more than 150 Mexican supporters and tourists.
The match began in heavy rain, and the weather soon caused trouble. When Mexico launched the attack that led to the winning goal, the screen stopped working for two seconds. That brief outage was enough to draw loud disappointment from the crowd, which had been waiting to see the ball cross the line.
By the time the display returned, the players were already running to celebrate on the pitch. The fans then jumped, cheered and urged the team on, even though many felt they had missed the most important moment. The report says the goal could secure Mexico’s place in the next round, and in fact it did.
The bar crowd will remember the match as a night when a badly timed technical fault kept them from seeing the decisive goal itself, even as they celebrated the result afterward.
