Mexico’s 2-0 win over South Africa brought joy to El Tri’s army of fans.<\/p>\n
“Let’s go for more,” Isidro Mart\u00ednez, an excited 36-year-old businessman, said after Mexico took the lead early in the first half.<\/p>\n
Mart\u00ednez, his brother, and a friend were among the throngs of people who watched the match at a fan fest in Mexico City’s main square. It was one of 18 in cities throughout Mexico.<\/p>\n
At the Angel monument on one of the capital’s main avenues, hundreds of fans watched as Mexico doubled its lead in the second half of a choppy game that ended with three red card ejections, including one for a Mexican player.<\/p>\n
“We are going to win my friend, We’re going for it all!” screamed Gerry Legarreta, a 52-year-old American who traveled from the Texas border city of El Paso to celebrate his birthday while watching the game.<\/p>\n
In front of him, a group of people, including children, danced in a circle waving the Mexican flag. On the other side of the traffic circle, a band added to the raucous atmosphere by banging drums and playing trumpets.<\/p>\n
In Tacuba, an area in northern Mexico City, Irene Rosell Soriano cheered on El Tri from a wheelchair, her legs covered by the Mexican flag.<\/p>\n
“These are the final games of my life,” said Rosell Soriano, who at age 92, was probably the oldest fan at that watch party. “And, well, I have to enjoy them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico’s 2-0 win over South Africa brought joy to El Tri’s army of fans. “Let’s go for more,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[145909,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-358483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-145909","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}