Rob
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I noticed that in June the team is travelling to Austria to play a single game against Azerbaijan. Seems like a waste of resources.
I noticed that in June the team is travelling to Austria to play a single game against Azerbaijan. Seems like a waste of resources.
So visiting fans at Azteca have to protected by riots police at all times?
Yup, full riot police escort up the ramps, in the stadium and on the way out. Pretty much looked like the above, and considering we are obviously far less of a rival (and far less relevant) than the US that shows how seriously they do take it down there.
We also got a full motorcade escort back to our hotel in an armored police van which was pretty awesome.
There was also a guy just below our section who was wearing, for some unknown reason, an early 2000's Phoenix Coyotes jersey. We kept trying to get him to turn around but he definitely had no idea what he was wearing.
Mexican fans were pretty chill - before the match they all just wanted to take pictures with us so the police just were around the perimeter and it was fine. Even after the match it was just a few stray beers getting thrown at us (aka no batteries or worse). But better to be more protected than less (especially when its like 50 v 75,000)
Did you feel safe going to the bathroom?
We had our own concession stands and bathrooms guarded by police so it was pretty much better than Vancouver haha