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12/06/2026 - 12.30. Beyond the Game, The Ball Stays Pure
To talk about the repercussions of the matches played and how the World Cup is being experienced in Mexico City, we go to Carlos Montero, teleSUR correspondent in that city to brings us the details. teleSUR
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00:00And to talk more about the repercussions of this match between South Korea and the
00:04Czech Republic and also how the World Cup is being experienced in Mexico City
00:07let's go live with Carlos Montero our correspondent in that city to have more
00:12information welcome Carlos to be on the game hi good morning everybody we have
00:17a big crew here in Mexico this is the center the operation center of Telesur
00:23the Aztec Stadium behind us where yesterday the local team Mexico in South
00:30Africa it was a big party the whole day yesterday even this morning people still
00:35celebration is the first time after seven try that Mexico wins an opening game let
00:41me show you I'm an old school I like to go to the kiosk and talk to the new the
00:46guy who sells you the newspaper this is the story they cover the front page La
00:52jornada is one of the newspaper most popular here in Mexico is about the
00:56opening ceremony that was fantastic then he's talking about the game he's talking
01:01about the fans the Mexican fun yeah and here he's showing us the one of the two
01:06goals of Mexico but this has two faces this a celebration here in Mexico if you
01:13turn go to the the last page from the same newspaper you see all those protesters they
01:21are from school organizations the professors teachers who demand more money and
01:26they were trying to get here to close to the stadium they couldn't do it because
01:30the police stopped them but also is a subject that is very important here in
01:36Mexico and here it says the president Sheinbaum says he's going to talk to the
01:42professor the teachers and you're going to listen to them they've been protesting for a long long time
01:49the first game of yesterday it has a beautiful opening ceremony we are going to
01:54have another two opening ceremony today because you know this world cup is playing in three countries
02:01so today was the then of the USA and it's going to be the turn of Canada to have a
02:06beautiful open
02:07ceremony but my point was this the first game was absolutely sold out but the second game the one it
02:16wasn't played here in Mexico was played in Guadalajara it has a smaller much smaller stadium here is 82 000
02:24Guadalajara was 45 there were 42 000 people and you can see some pictures on social media of a lot
02:32empty
02:32seats that take us to talk about how expensive is to buy a ticket for this world cup and we
02:40start to see in
02:41this game South Korea against Czech Republic there were a lot empty seats also it was an empty seat that
02:50it was very
02:51significant very very significant I think we have a picture Gian Infantino the president of FIFA was sitting with an
02:59empty seat
02:59because that seat corresponded to the president Claudia Sheinbaum it was the ticket 001 tradition
03:07in all the world cup always the president of the country who's hosting the world cup goes to the opening
03:14ceremony
03:15in this case for the first time the president Claudia Sheinbaum decided to watch the game in a small community
03:24with people they put a big screen she didn't want to be here in the stadium what's happened with the
03:29ticket she gave the
03:30ticket to an Indian girl we don't know what happened why she was not in the stadium yesterday that's a
03:38question we have to
03:40see and to find out what's happened with that ticket the ticket 001 that the president said I'm not going
03:46to go but I'm going to
03:48give this to this little Indian girl who has no much money today we have like I said Canada Bosnia
03:56Herzegovina
03:56before the game is going to be open ceremony and then we have Paraguay USA the host team that the
04:04first one
04:04is going to be Toronto the second one is going to be in Los Angeles for Paraguay one of 14
04:11from South America
04:12is very important is coming to a world cup after 16 years the last time was in South Africa really
04:19emotional for the players yesterday before each match the players and the coach one player and the coach
04:26they give a press conference yesterday Diego Gomez a young Paraguayan football player in front of all the
04:35reporters who were in the media center he couldn't hold the tears he started to cry it was very emotional
04:43to see him crying say for me so important I carry on my shoulder the whole Paraguay country Paraguay like
04:51I said before 16 years without a world cup a lot of emotion a lot of things going on and
04:57I'm sure the
04:58next time we are going to talk I'm going to give you more information of what's going today here in
05:03the
05:04world cup three countries complicated this broadcast because we have to be here in Mexico that's where
05:09we are from we like Latin America but then we have correspondence in the USA and we have correspondence
05:16in Canada I'm going back to you have a wonderful day thank you Carlos for the detailed information of
05:22course we're going to stay tuned to follow this course of the games that are going to take place
05:26today as you were saying the host nation Canada and the United States the other two co-host nations
05:31will be making their debut Canada against the Bosnia-Herzegovina team and the US against Paraguay
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