{"id":322675,"date":"2026-06-28T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322675\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T17:32:09","slug":"colombia-fans-flood-miami-stadium-for-portugal-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322675\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia fans flood Miami Stadium for Portugal match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colombia\u2019s match against Portugal on Saturday was \u201cpractically a home game,\u201d with Miami Stadium \u201cawash in yellow as more than three quarters of the sellout crowd\u201d of 64,478 was rooting for Colombia. Fans showed up as early as 8am ET on Saturday, more than 11 hours before kickoff. More than 40,000 Colombian fans were expected at the match and this time, \u201cnobody was crashing through the gates without tickets, as thousands did for the 2024 Copa America final against Argentina.\u201d Security was \u201cextra tight, with three checkpoints, and the mood was festive\u201d (MIAMI HERALD, 6\/27<\/a>). There was \u201conly a smattering of red in a crowd full of Colombia fans,\u201d and Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s Portugal jersey \u201cmade up most of the red around the stadium\u201d (MIAMI HERALD, 6\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Among the familiar faces in attendance for Colombia-Portugal were U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who arrived with Inter Miami owners Jorge and Jose Mas. FBI Director Kash Patel was also there, seated with FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Also on the VIP list was Warriors F Jimmy Butler, musician J Balvin, actor Matt Damon and singers Carin Leon and Camila Cabello (MIAMI HERALD, 6\/27<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dallas Stadium hosted Argentina-Jordan on Saturday, and Argentina fans \u201cowned this stadium in a way Cowboys owner Jerry Jones only wishes his team could in a major game.\u201d Any visit from a Cowboys \u201crival of consequence brings out 15,000-20,000 visiting jerseys.\u201d However, Saturday\u2019s match saw the stadium \u201cbasically filled with something just shy of 70,000\u201d Lionel Messi jerseys (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 6\/28<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colombia\u2019s match against Portugal on Saturday was \u201cpractically a home game,\u201d with Miami Stadium \u201cawash in yellow as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54741,12812,123,125,124,2062,9611],"class_list":["post-322675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fan-experience","tag-fifa","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-soccer","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322675","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=322675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}