HOUSTON – Entry to Houston’s FIFA Fan Festival is paused for Sunday after reaching capacity.<\/p>\n
Houston FIFA Fan Festival: Entry paused for July 5 <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The Houston World Cup committee posted at about 3 p.m. Sunday<\/a> that they had reached their festival capacity of 7,500 people.<\/p>\n Organizers are pausing entry to the festival until there’s more room.<\/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 What we don’t know:<\/p>\n There is no estimate on if and\/or when entry will reopen.<\/p>\n Shell Stadium sold out <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n A representative for Shell Energy Stadium confirmed that it is also at capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n The stadium was offering free general admission tickets to fill over 17,000 seats, but they were all sold out<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today’s matches <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n The FIFA World Cup Round of 16 continues with two matches taking place in the U.S. and Mexico.<\/p>\n Brazil vs Norway Happening nowNew York\/New Jersey StadiumNetwork: FOX Mexico vs England 7:00 p.m. CTMexico City StadiumNetwork: FOX <\/p>\n The Source: FIFA World Cup 26 Houston, Shell Energy Stadium representative, and previous FOX reporting.<\/p>\n