{"id":524764,"date":"2026-07-04T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/524764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:59:12","slug":"england-get-hostile-welcome-on-arrival-at-mexico-city-hotel-for-world-cup-showdown-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/524764\/","title":{"rendered":"England get hostile welcome on arrival at Mexico City hotel for World Cup showdown | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

England received a hostile welcome as they arrived at their Mexico City hotel for Sunday\u2019s World Cup<\/a> last-16 tie against Mexico.<\/p>\n

England had been hoping to keep their location undisclosed after Mexico supporters used loud speakers, horns and motorcycles to try to disturb the sleep of Ecuador\u2019s players before their last-32 tie, which the co-hosts won 2-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

But when England\u2019s coach arrived at their hotel, hundreds of fans were there, with many booing while others chanted \u201cMexico\u201d. At least one supporter within the crowd could be seen holding up an England shirt.<\/p>\n

Security has been increased outside the hotel after events earlier in the week, which led to complaints from Ecuador\u2019s football federation. There has also been an increase in security in the city after four people died<\/a> during the celebrations that followed Mexico\u2019s win over Ecuador.<\/p>\n

Thomas Tuchel\u2019s men take on the co-hosts at the Azteca Stadium, with kick-off scheduled for 6pm local time (1am Monday in the UK). Fifa had considered moving kick-off forward owing to a forecast for storms but, after five and a half hours of uncertainty on Friday, the decision was made to stick with the original schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mexico had voiced opposition to rescheduling the game less than 48 hours before kick-off and the English Football Association was stunned on hearing of a potential change and is understood to have been less than impressed by the back and forth. \u201cThe schedule change hits like a kick in the stomach,\u201d the Mexico manager, Javier Aguirre, said. \u201cWe have to change the entire plan. I don\u2019t like it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

A hostile reception is far from the only challenge England will face in Mexico City, with the Azteca more than 2,000 metres above sea level, meaning players must adapt to lower levels of oxygen<\/a> in the air.<\/p>\n

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Mexico have been beaten only twice in 89 matches at the Azteca, winning 70 and drawing 17. They are unbeaten in 10 World Cup matches at the stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England received a hostile welcome as they arrived at their Mexico City hotel for Sunday\u2019s World Cup last-16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-524764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}