HOUSTON – Entry to Houston’s FIFA Fan Festival is temporarily closed off for Friday after reaching capacity.<\/p>\n
Houston FIFA Fan Festival: Entry paused for July 3 <\/p>\n
Local perspective:<\/p>\n
The Houston FIFA committee announced at about 5:15 p.m.<\/a> that the Fan Festival had reached capacity of 7,500 people.<\/p>\n Organizers are not allowing others into the festival area until more space is available.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n If you ever have to wait to get into Fan Fest, you can make other stops in East Downtown<\/a> that are a part of the “Football Fiesta” in the meantime.<\/p>\n Friday match schedule <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Friday had three matches to wrap up the Round of 32. Here’s what to know as of 6:30 p.m. CST:\u00a0<\/p>\n Egypt knocked out Australia during a penalty shootout, winning the match 4-2 for their first World Cup knockout match.Argentina and Cabo Verde are currently battling it out with a 1-1 tie.Colombia and Ghana will go against one another at 8:3 p.m. CST. <\/p>\n The Source: FIFA World Cup 26 Houston, FOX Sports, and previous FOX reporting.<\/p>\n FIFA World Cup<\/a>Eastside\/EaDo<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Entry to Houston’s FIFA Fan Festival is temporarily closed off for Friday after reaching capacity. Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4475,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393,3692],"class_list":["post-360514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-eado","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}