Tens of thousands of fans packed San Pedro Square to celebrate at the official Watch Party. The atmosphere was electric, but city leaders were also watching closely after violence broke out following last night\u2019s Mexico watch party.<\/p>\n
San Pedro Square turned into America\u2019s biggest living room. Thousands of fans packed shoulder-to-shoulder, living\u2014and celebrating\u2014every second of Team USA\u2019s victory over Bosnia.<\/p>\n
Red, white and blue covered just about everything. Even the fans, as Patricia Vo was painting faces and celebrating something much bigger than soccer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter eight rounds of chemo and three surgeries, why not be out here supporting USA and just bring the joy to everybody?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She says after everything she\u2019s fought through, there was nowhere else she\u2019d rather be.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s better than being in chemo, right? We\u2019ve gotta fight!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
For others, the World Cup is bringing together people from every corner of California.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe energy is incredible. I don\u2019t think it could\u2019ve been better anywhere else,\u201d Elizabeth Henderson said.<\/p>\n
But while Wednesday\u2019s celebration was full of excitement, there was also a heightened focus on security.<\/p>\n
Last night, after Mexico\u2019s watch party drew more than 40,000 people, two people were stabbed and several others were arrested.<\/p>\n
Now the city is making changes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of our staffing yes, we will put more officers, including special operations people in the downtown core,\u201d SJPD Assistant Chief Ali Miri said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will have to make adjustments before the next team Mexico match. It isn\u2019t safe to have that many people crowded into a small space like that,\u201d San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said.<\/p>\n
City leaders said they\u2019ll be reviewing today\u2019s operations before the next official watch parties, with plans for more security and crowd management after last night\u2019s violence.<\/p>\n
But Wednesday\u2019s was a celebration here in San Pedro Square as fans keep believing this World Cup run is just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of fans packed San Pedro Square to celebrate at the official Watch Party. The atmosphere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15392,88,90,89,5393],"class_list":["post-383365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383365","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=383365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}