{"id":382229,"date":"2026-07-01T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382229\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:50:14","slug":"sold-out-rainbow-ballroom-erupts-as-mexico-tops-ecuador-2-0-in-fresno-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382229\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold-out Rainbow Ballroom erupts as Mexico tops Ecuador 2-0 in Fresno watch party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A sold-out crowd packed the Rainbow Ballroom in downtown Fresno for the watch party to see Mexico beat Ecuador 2-0 in the knockout round of the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms delayed kickoff in Mexico City, but Mexico&#8217;s win had 1,200 fans on their feet and making lots of noise for their team.<\/p>\n<p>FOX26 News Reporter Dania Romero was at the watch party and spoke to the manager, who said he plans to hold more watch parties.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the United States take on Bosnia and Herzegovina Wednesday afternoon at 5 p.m. on FOX26.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Dania Romero will be at another watch party at Dave &amp; Buster&#8217;s at Friant Road and Highway 41 in Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A sold-out crowd packed the Rainbow Ballroom in downtown Fresno for the watch party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-382229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382229","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=382229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}