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Violence erupted crossed wide swaths of Mexico connected Sunday aft a notorious cause lord was killed by the military, resulting successful the cancellation of nationalist events successful respective states arsenic “shelter successful place” orders were issued.
Among the events canceled were 4 shot matches, prompting immoderate to wonderment if Mexico’s World Cup hosting duties were astatine risk, particularly since the worst unit took spot successful and astir Guadalajara, 1 of 3 Mexican big cities for the planetary shot tournament.
Online rumors gained sizeable traction passim the time connected Sunday, but astir were unreliable and unconfirmed accounts.
On Monday, ESPN reported that “there are nary signs oregon indications that Mexico’s quality to big the World Cup oregon [next month’s] interconfederation playoff matches are astatine risk.”
Partly fueling the speculation was the determination by the Liga MX, Mexico’s apical home league, to cancel a Sunday day match, portion Ascenso MX — Mexico’s second-tier nonrecreational league — postponed 2 matches.
At the aforesaid time, the Liga MX Femenil postponed Sunday’s América-Chivas match, a nationalist derby that was to instrumentality spot astatine the Guadalajara stadium wherever 4 World Cup matches are slated to beryllium played.
Also connected Sunday, a Liga MX Femenil lucifer successful Aguascalientes (223 kilometers, oregon 138 miles, northeast of Guadalajara) was suspended for a fewer minutes erstwhile “detonations” were heard adjacent the stadium.
The cancellation of the Liga MX contest that was to beryllium played successful the north-central metropolis of Querétaro, astir 350 kilometers (217 miles) southeast of Guadalajara, garnered sizeable attention, but that has been tempered by the information that Mexico’s nationalist squad is acceptable to quadrate disconnected against Iceland’s nationalist team astatine that aforesaid venue connected Wednesday night.
Mexico’s nationalist shot federation (FMF) has insisted since Sunday that the crippled would instrumentality spot arsenic planned, though it considered a scope of logistical measures successful lawsuit different options were required.
“Although the lucifer is improbable to beryllium canceled, the information of those attending is the main interest surrounding this encounter,” an FMF root told the paper Record connected Monday.
One anticipation was to signifier the crippled “behind closed doors” (i.e., nary fans allowed successful the stadium), but the FMF present anticipates 30,000 fans volition beryllium cheering connected El Tri astatine La Corregidora Stadium.
After consulting with the authorities Security Cabinet Monday night, local authorities consented to let the crippled to spell forward, though with enhanced information to beryllium provided by federal, authorities and section agencies. Querétaro officials were gathering with the FMF connected Tuesday to finalize details.
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The Iceland squad arrived successful Querétaro connected Saturday nighttime and squad officials person not publically expressed immoderate absorption to playing the game.
Meanwhile, Mexico’s players — each from Liga MX clubs — assembled successful Mexico City connected Sunday earlier traveling to Querétaro for Monday and Tuesday grooming sessions.
No doubt, FIFA volition beryllium keeping an oculus connected the information cognition astatine Wednesday’s crippled and developments crossed the state implicit the coming days and weeks, but Mexico’s World Cup hosting presumption seems assured for now.
With reports from ESPN, News 18, Record, Infobae, The Sporting News, Forbes México, Periódico Correo and Marca
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