{"id":307548,"date":"2026-06-15T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:21:09","slug":"soccer-uruguays-flight-to-miami-for-world-cup-match-delayed-due-to-airline-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307548\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Uruguay&#8217;s flight to Miami for World Cup match delayed due to airline error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Rohith Nair<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MIAMI, June 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Uruguay&#8217;s flight from Mexico to Miami for their \u200cWorld Cup opener was delayed by several \u200chours on Sunday due to an airline error, FIFA \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Uruguay, who are based in Playa del Carmen, are scheduled to play Saudi Arabia in Group H on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Due to an airline permitting error \u200cin Mexico, the \u2060Uruguay national team\u2019s departure from Cancun to Miami was delayed. The airline has \u2060apologised for the inconvenience caused,&#8221; FIFA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governing body added that they \u200bwere in \u200bclose contact with the \u200bteam during the \u200cdelay and worked with airport and operational partners to help expedite the process and minimise disruption to the team\u2019s travel arrangements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Coach Marcelo Bielsa told reporters that the delay did not cause problems \u200cfor his side, while \u200bskipper Jose Maria Gimenez added \u200bthat they made \u200bthe best of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The travel, \u200cwe had some complications, \u200bit was difficult \u200bbut we were able to rest in the hotel and get here later,&#8221; the \u200bdefender said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Report \u200cby Javier Leira, edited by Manuel Far\u00edas. \u200bTranslated by Angelica Medina, editing by Ed \u200bOsmond and Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rohith Nair MIAMI, June 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Uruguay&#8217;s flight from Mexico to Miami for their \u200cWorld Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20372,12812,4392,123,125,124,128448,13228,24605,128447,125317],"class_list":["post-307548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-airline","tag-fifa","tag-mexico","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-playa-del-carmen","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-uruguay","tag-uruguay-national-team","tag-world-cup-opener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}