Wednesday, fans crowded into San Pedro Square to watch Brazil take on Scotland for a chance to advance in the tournament. But even more packed the area to root on Mexico, which has already clinched a spot in the next knockout round.<\/p>\n
The World Cup viewing is still the biggest show in town for fans whether their team has made it to the knockout round or not.<\/p>\n
Brazil made it in just a couple of hours ago, while Mexico clinched earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n
No matter what, it\u2019s been hard for fans to find a seat unless they came early; in some cases, very early.<\/p>\n
Marianna Montenegro and her family were the first to arrive for the Mexico World Cup game against Czechia, in front of one of the big TV screens in San Pedro Square.<\/p>\n
She said she learned her lesson at the last Mexico game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time, because the game does start all the way until 6 p.m., we did sacrifice our time and day to get here like hours ahead, so we got here at 10:30 a.m. instead so we\u2019d be able to get a seat in front of the big screen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for the M\u00e9xico fans to start arriving, and many said it didn\u2019t matter that Mexico has already clinched the knockout round and that Wednesday\u2019s game didn\u2019t mean much for the standings.<\/p>\n
Some of the local businesses said it\u2019s been busy the entire World Cup, but they’ve seen huge spikes during Mexico and the United States games.<\/p>\n
One vendor said it\u2019s pretty tough finding Mexico team souvenirs now.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, for adult and sold out within the first week or so. For kids, it\u2019s sold out the second week, so, in about two weeks, we sold out pretty much on all the Mexican apparel,\u201d Kevin Valencia said.<\/p>\n
There were pretty good crowds for the Switzerland-Canada matchup, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina against Qatar, and then things got really crowded and noisy for Brazil and Scotland. Mexico fans were already in those crowds, Montenegro said she made the right decision to come in the morning for the evening game.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are still able to get in, and it\u2019s so much easier, even though the crowd is very loud and very energetic, you\u2019re still able to come in compared to last time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, fans crowded into San Pedro Square to watch Brazil take on Scotland for a chance to advance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-373896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373896","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=373896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}