Copa America Situation Is Crazy

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[@Nadia1989]

Copa América bingo: * Chilean national team gets piss drunk in the hotel with hookers ❌ * Referees controversy ✅ * Brawls after a match ✅ * Failures in organization ✅ * Police being police ✅ * Coaches making spicy statements ✅ * Chaos ✅ * Something weird that nobody expected ✅ Yeah, just a normal Copa América.

[@WeonRichi]

Wait what? Did you make that Chilean fact up or did that actually happen I’m lost

[@Hyde_Hill]

Bloody Chileans not giving us a clean sweep lol. Maybe a story will come out later. I know for the Dutch that 20 years later you get some crazy stories.

[@Hyde_Hill]

@@WeonRichi Couple of years ago I think. Yup this title: "Chile players accused of breaking Copa America COVID bubble to bonk prostitutes in their hotel rooms" on benchwarmers site. Apparently Mexico team also did it.

[@Nadia1989]

​@@WeonRichito be fair, there's always one team that does it before competition or between matches. Mexicans had a birthday party with "female guests" before a WC, Peruvians were linked to a very sus incident, Ecuadorians went to a club in NYC before a WC qualifiers match, but the Chileans became famous for their ridiculous antics.

[@matttyce903]

Whats with the dutch ​@@Hyde_Hill

[@ding9916]

Some say there are still Colombians stuck in that stadium, some that could never find their way out. Cursed to crawl through the air vents of Hard Rock stadium for eternity.

[@rafaelrocha3334]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

Lets hope not

[@morena012]

😂😂😂

[@tthaas]

Miami-Dade police assaulting a journalist covering a story is absolutely on brand for them.

[@tehpluto3594]

As much as I don't agree with Americas suing culture, in this case I agree with Z. The people who paid for tickets and didnt get in need to take some kind of legal action, that's actually disgusting.

[@ChineseKiwi]

yep, class action lawsuit vs CONMEBOL go BRRRRRRRRRRR - easy payday for the lawyers surely....

[@JuanNunez2023]

The CONMEBOL statement on this finals is worth a Zealandism video by itself.

[@chandlercrockett213]

The battle of hard rock stadium (Circa Miami 2024, colorized)

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

😂😂😂

[@erdnasiul87]

You may say Copa America went *South*

[@AreEnTee]

😑

[@appletree13]

It went north actually 🤓

[@DrZaius3141]

I live in Europe and I wanted to watch this. So I stayed up. Eventually I decided to go for a long run. Still witnessed about half the match.

[@crediblesalamander8056]

same. i just ended up going to bed

[@matttyce903]

Same i was excited to watch but i went to bed, no regrets tho as i watched the full game back and didnt enjoy it at all

[@Damian_1989]

Dude. "Some crazy shit" *ALWAYS* happens at the Copa América.

[@ninjalectualx]

Even that one USA-Mexico game had people climbing the rafters and dropping down on the studio crew 🤣

[@kylejohansen689]

Those ticket holders who didn't get in like Jose surely have a case for a lawsuit against the stadium and CONMEBOL even. Regardless, after a catastrophe like that, the security at the World Cup will be a hundred times what it was here.

[@bundesautobahn7]

It was basically the 2022 UCL Final all over again. And CONMEBOL tries to talk itself out of responsibility by blaming basically Hard Rock Stadium and the authorities.

[@mattcwell]

Unlike UEFA, who tried to blame Liverpool fans. What else is new? Corrupt orgs being corrupt.

[@bundesautobahn7]

@@mattcwell I know. Preaching water, but at the same time drinking wine.

[@Phoenix-MX1]

Secret Service and CONMEBOL competing for the biggest security lapse this weekend

[@OpTicMinds]

Nosebleed Tickets were $2100 till the last day. 4 hours before kickoff my ticket plug was selling them for $500. Glad I decided not to go, dodged a bullet😅

[@meisalanbenfica1]

Idk why the final wasn’t in sofi stadium (LA) or AT&T stadium (Dallas) there capacity is was bigger for more fans.

[@kylejohansen689]

Most of the fans that broke in probably wouldn't have been able to pay the price of the tickets though, regardless if there were 60,000 seats or 100,000 seats. The cheapest World Cup final seat will still be very expensive.

[@1986fritzthecat]

hard rock stadium has maxed out at 80,000 fans, Sofi is normally configured for 70,000, and AT&T is normally configured for 80,000. it wouldnt have made a big difference, the issue is the thousands of people who went there with the sole intention of breaking in

[@treydog700]

@@1986fritzthecathard rock is huge what are you saying lol

[@andrefiliks]

Dude it's copa américa, a predominantly south american competition. There's only one place you could make the finals in the US, and that's miami

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

It was the stupid messi hype. Messi "plays" for the mls miami team. He just walks around occasionally scores a goal and collects a fat paycheck.

[@benniebarnett9944]

Breaking news, Colombians find ways through American walls and policy.

[@matttyce903]

I tried to watch live from the Netherlands but the game was postponed till 03:15, thank God i didnt stay up because i watched it back the day later and wish i didnt

[@santiagoleaf3093]

The real issue here is in 2 years from now you gonna have people from countries that not only have footballing differences, but actual real geopolitical, religious and cultural differences meeting each other on the stadiums and the streets. If this and Uruguay match are the type of secuirty they gonna provide in 2026, shit gonna hit the fan real quick.

[@havenharris1793]

Difference is the world cup will be ran by FIFA who are infinitely better at hosting tournaments than CONMEBOL

[@pedroramalho121]

No, the real problem is going to be in 2025, in the Club World Cup, because then you will have club fans and worst, you will have organized fans, and nobody in the USA have experiencie on that type of crowd.

[@jaredbowhay-pringle1460]

​@@pedroramalho121 Unlikely, nobody travels for the Club World Cup so the crowds will be made up of locals

[@pedroramalho121]

@@jaredbowhay-pringle1460 the South Americans will travel, and there are plenty of Brazilians and Argentines in the USA, also, it's a different format in 2025, much longer, you probably right that the Europeans will skip the tournament, but lets say that Flamengo and Fluminense have a game in the quarter finals, i dont think that FIFA is ready for this scenario, in the current format it cannot happen, but in the 2025 format it can, two clubs with millions of supporters and huge "Torcidas Organizadas" playing a game in a place that has no experience in these types of problems.

[@Mrbeat-88]

This won't be the first WC ever you know?. Not even USA's first. Shit happens.

[@Julythatpingu]

I live like 6-7 min from the stadium so I’ve gone to many events here. Usually there’s checkpoints. I’m surprised for a game this big they didn’t take any precautions. So sad to see that most were Colombians breaking in and on top of that we lost 😭 we will be back World Cup with a vengeance hopefully 🇨🇴

[@Malam_NightYoru]

the problem is not that colombians broke through, but the PRICE of the fucking event. Who tf they thought was gonna pay entrance? Swedish people??? They KNOW our countries in south america have to save lots of money just to go to North America, they should've known better about the pricing of the entrance. that's actually gatekeeping our nationality, and that sucks... I (a Brazilian) will stand up for our brothers Colombians, you guys deserve better. ❤️

[@Julythatpingu]

@@Malam_NightYoru I 100% agree. I was going to buy a ticket a month before and without knowing the finalist it was 700$ for the cheapest ticket. I couldn’t afford that especially not knowing if Colombia was going to be in the final. Just crazy situation

[@treydog700]

Yeah I’ve been to probably close to 50 dolphins and hurricanes games there and I’ve never seen anything close to this

[@bundesautobahn7]

Don't they usually even have CBP assisting law enforcement at such events? I mean, they do assist for events such as the Super Bowl.

[@Julythatpingu]

@@treydog700 dolphins game and even rolling loud never got that bad

[@GodfatherBoxSet]

CONMEBOL and CONCACAF didn't want to spend the money for proper security. It's was all about lining thier pockets. There was less security than for a 20k person college football event. This is also an issue with the fans. Those people that broke in are assholes. Also most happened to be Columbian fans so now I'm even more inclined to think they are the real issue considering thier actions during the Uruguay game

[@bundesautobahn7]

And then CONMEBOL denies any responsibility. This smells like a class-action lawsuit by those who had tickets and spent a fortune on them.

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

Concacaf had no responsibility in this tournament. Conmebol was in charge. Its a conmebol tournament.

[@FieldMedic4077]

They should have checked ticket stubs at the exit gates after the match. If you don't have a stub or can't prove you had one you get charged.

[@Orange_Fever]

Those who broke in still have $2000 to be fined with for trespassing.

[@DEADSHOT-tv2fi]

Just crazy that people seriously cannot control themselves at all to the point they endangered others lives smh

[@Matthew_Troll]

I very much appreciated going to the 3rd place game in Charlotte. 25K fans, everything was orderly and I sat in the 4th row for $200. Couldn’t have had a better experience

[@martiijn]

2:30 who gives a fuck about the price of the tickets. watching a football game in person isn't a damn human right and it being an important or historic game doesn't justify people breaking into a stadium en masse and endangering others in the process. the fact that that makes what happened basically "inevitable" shows how insane football fandom is and it shouldn't be okay. football is the only sport where this behavior from fans is still accepted and just looked at like "oh well, these silly football fans are just so passionate about dudes running after a ball that they can't keep their emotions in check. guess there's nothing we can do about it."

[@house382]

For those non-US viewers, this is nicest law enforcement has ever treated Spanish speaking forgien nationals. That's the shock thing for someone who lives here. No tear gas, no bullets (rubber or otherwise), minimal riot gear. This was kid's gloves.

[@nameanteater4772]

To all the people who payed and didn’t get to watch it. Go after CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, Stadium owners, ticket sellers and US soccer

[@vinylhorror]

We just seen this happen at Euro 2022 with a Netflix Doc. How in the hell do you not prepare better after watching it just happen.

[@bonsai4658]

Can’t wait for World Cup 😂 and Netflix documentary as well of this

[@samuelgordino]

Euro 2022???

[@Phoenix-vr6bv]

@@samuelgordinothink they meant the UCL Final 2022 when tear gas got deployed

[@parmaman8551]

I watched this game from the UK and the delay meant I only had 1 hours sleep before I had to go to work

[@Mateo18GP]

This is pretty common in the CONMEBOL list of negligence

[@ayooo9770]

Everyone who complains about how "barbaric" and "low quality" the copa is simultaneously complains about how boring Southgate and Deschamps are. You have to pick one lol

[@AreEnTee]

To be fair, for every Southgate, there's a Ragnik

[@robinelliott-ni2eh]

😂 are you on drugs? What tf kind of comparisons are those?

[@ayooo9770]

​@@AreEnTeeThat's fair. Me personally I view soccer as entertainment first and foremost, and the copa is often more entertaining both on and off the pitch😂

[@jaredbowhay-pringle1460]

Apples and oranges, completely.

[@ronmastrio2798]

Slow defensive football is exactly what Argentina play.

[@Leonardohummel]

Zealand if someday you cover Copa Libertadores you would have content for ages

[@Sledgehammer003]

Mexican TV was showing all the scenes with Miami PD, and had cameras out in the crowd, and u jst randomly saw a bunch of colombian fans running into a direction all together in the 100s :P

[@RoastyTP]

It was lucky that this only happened at this scale at the finals venue. At the Columbia vs Brazil game in Santa Clara it was clear that the event organizers chose to go as bare bones as possible. At Levi's stadium where normally there are 15-20 metal detectors at every gate and it takes no more than a few minutes to get into the stadium. At the Copa America game they had only 4 metal detectors open at Gate F which were quickly overrun and the security staff onsite hired by the event resorted to individually wanding people slowing the process even further. This backed up the line to get in further than I ever experienced all of this while people are shoulder to shoulder in 100+ degree heat. I had multiple people in the area I could see around me faint or become sick due to heat exhaustion. People were upset at the length of time to get in and I am sure people without tickets also got in as all the stairwells were filled with standing people. It is unbelievable to me that this was allowed to happen at any stadium, especially ones that routinely host 70,000+ people almost every Sunday in the fall. The lack of preparation or care for the attendees of this tournament was clear as day and regardless of who is in charge or to blame there is a lot of lessons to be learned leading up to 2026.

[@aaronhurst4379]

Tbf Jose just looks exhausted and broken down, and I would be too

[@taniacruz3795]

I was there. It was horrible, caused by people with bad intentions. That being said, our elected officials and police department would have known that there was a potential that this would happen with just a tiny bit of research.

[@MauroB26]

I mean alejandro garnacho brother was narrating the situation from twitter it was a mess

[@biswaroopmukherjee7450]

Love Z, but all the chaos and violence in the Copa being swept under the rug of 'this is Conmebol's tournament' seems rather weak. His take on this can age incredibly poorly if these same things start to happen in 2026. Having lived in the US for few years, I can say the infrastructure and security mechanism in that country is shoddy at best.

[@devinc5484]

We have sporting events in 60k to 100k seat stadiums all the time and this never happens. It's pretty easy to figure out.

[@biswaroopmukherjee7450]

@@devinc5484 do you have 60 to 100k drunk Europeans and South Americans in your stadiums 'all the time'?

[@pedroramalho121]

@@devinc5484 different cultures, USA spectators are less participant in this type of events, Any way, good luck for the Club World Cup in 2025, when futebol hard core fans will come. :)

[@antj15]

@12:27 i would feel smeckledorfed personally

[@lilrobux_real]

Well at least we are prepared for the world cup

[@JASPADIGHOST]

You don't see these things happen when it's the Gold Cup

[@fusushui]

Class action lawsuit inbound

[@safcjcp]

Lawyers going to make a lot while the people who lost out will get pennies

[@seanmurray7983]

Miami has no idea how to handle this. No one has EVER wanted to see a Dolphins game that bad. People were going Shawshank Redemption to get in, crawling thru the ventilation system like Andy Dufresne

[@slushyseal_CXCVI]

I’ve been waiting for this video ever since I saw the crowds

[@RespecTheLevYT]

12:26 bro would be IRREPLACEABLE 😂😂😂

[@AlienFinger]

The Colombians really wanted to watch their team lose.

[@LockonStratos999]

Just Alejandro Dominguez trying to save money. Even a Colchagua-Municipal Puente Alto in Chilean 3rd A Division has better security. Since Dominguez became president, a lot of weird things happened, but all of them led by his greed. Libertadores Final at the Bernabeu. Copa "Libertadores" being played in the conqueror country. 3 Copas América in 5 years (2019, 2021, 2024) A world cup "sold" for 3 matches in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay (Dominguez country). He granted a ridiculous amount of Libertadores and Sudamericana spots to Brazil and Argentina, 7 to Lib and 6 Sud each country, basically ruining the tournaments. Everyone else has 4 spots with only 2 of those being to group stages, the others are play-off spots, and you can face brazilian or argentinians there. In 2019, he moved the Libertadores final from Santiago, Chile to Lima, Perú days before the match. He said they were able to do in 11 days what couldn't be done in 11 months; the Chilean government said that they weren't willing to finance a 40 million party for Conmebol higherups and sponsors. I'm probably forgetting some more weird things. And now we add the worst Copa América (at least at an organizational level) to the list of achievements of this person.

[@johnbarreto9349]

Im colombian and Im embarrassed with what happened

[@SeranaTheStudent]

One random Columbian: "Hey, I learned of this one wild trick from Playing Metal gear solid, just find the air vents!"

[@A_T_F_]

Am I watching Charlie or Z?

[@SpiritOfMontgomery]

I was thinking the same thing but also “damn he’s also done a Pyro and gone with the ‘[insert] situation is insane’”

[@TankZappa]

And this was the least crazy thing to happen in America in at least a month.

[@EJH783]

Florida IQ events

[@benniebarnett9944]

Miamigate

[@OrlovKruskayev]

Last year euros had an invasion too buddy, that is absolutely not a copa america exclusive

[@tpd1399]

When I said Utica I thought you meant my rival city 😂

[@swaguel]

title straight out of a pyro live vid

[@copious983]

class action upcoming

[@nabri-nfg3262]

bet Copa America ain't coming back to the USA for a very very long time lol

[@eee99727]

We Americans low key love the drama that occurred in Copa America , we just don’t want to admit it. We can’t stop talking about it on Fox News and other sports channels. We are notorious for throwing all Latin Americans into the bus and say how uncivilized they behaved in our country. We’ll continue to receive them because we love Latin American consumerism they bring in a lot cash. Hence , which is why the US hosted a Copa America tournament here.

[@umangpaswan7125]

thought it was a penguinz0 video looking at the title

[@qBeYcarpet]

"I'll be there no matter what"

[@josecespedes9929]

as a miamian, was waiting for this video

[@entropy2030]

Not enough blame on the Colombian fans. 100% their fault. Anyone excusing their behavior needs to get their brain checked

[@ZakumiiiGaming]

Euro 2020 Final all over again haha

[@julianguastadisegno]

Club World Cup will be interesting, Europeans, Argentine and Brazilian organized groups all at once? Just pray that a match between Conmebol teams doesn't go down (or do, It's going to be a tackle-full, showboating fun match) even Brasil had problems organising The Libertadores' Final, the last qualifier match between Br-Arg, etc.

[@julianguastadisegno]

Even then, Argentine and Brazilian home matches were much more organised than Miami.

[@suwfe29]

Yo it was an 1hr 22min delay

[@MrHastygamer]

Shout out to that one person who was chased down by the security

[@MrHastygamer]

I understand this is probably anti-capitalist but it would be nice if they raffled the tickets at a reasonable price for the finals of these tournaments when some countries have a significantly lower average wage and would never be able to afford to support their teams at those prices.

[@ohwhatasillyduck]

Can you imagine the scenes if the perpetrators were Argentinian supporters? The internet would be on fire right now, some already think we are horrible people, they don’t know the hate we are receiving out of nowhere just because we were born in Argentina.

[@tristanlwkns]

Love the Beerschot shirt

[@manning0]

I once turned up to the Rugby League world cup final 2013 at Old Trafford to find someone sitting in my seat! Apparently there were a lot of fake tickets and this man claimed his was legit but a fake was in his seat. Luckily, security were on my side and he moved under his own free will.

[@AKUNJIG]

Ross is ready with thr Lawsuit! Don't forget that we also have the Club World Cup next Summer. Now Imagine a Palmera's vs Flemego Match in Miami.

[@Sigurd-r5]

The Brits sure invented one hell of a popular sport with Association Football.

[@ding9916]

I wouldnt let this worry me about the 2026 world cup. Copa America is just a little....different...

[@mateusgapski1327]

If the world cup pitch sizes are to be the same size of copa america's, even if the rest is sorted, i feel it'll be already doomed. Even if FIFA allows, it just makes for bad matches.

[@BreachMePlz]

No need for tactical fouls when parking the bus becomes so easy. I agree, totally nullified tactics.

[@martintrejo1950]

The stadiums will be modified for a bigger pitch it’s already been planned and shown

[@stevenrose86]

The reason it was $1000/ticket is greed

[@CitroTeam]

It's America, whether in the south or in the north.

[@0svvan0]

some of this just screamed Astroworld flashback.

[@James-ih4gz]

1000 dollars for football game is crazy a euros tickets be cheaper that's rip off

[@VodkaHellstorm]

Starting to feel like we should stop pricing the fans out of the game, hey

[@tristanlwkns]

I really wanted to watch it even though i'm in the EU, the delay didn't help me from waking up happy 3 hours later for work.

[@DrZaius3141]

Florida police assaulting... I mean "arresting" a journalist is the most on brand thing I've heard the entire year.

[@MrAmeame]

The battle of non North American football times (2024, Miami - colorized) 😂🤣

[@MrReese]

Here I thought the video was about the terrible things that happened in Colombia after the match :X.

[@leila4509]

South America has to deal with this hooliganism. I have seen games in Argentina and it’s a war zone. Whereas Europe has turned it around to the point it’s a family sport.

[@1986fritzthecat]

this stadium has hosted major events up to including probably one of the biggest single sporting events that exist in the super bowl. This is so much more on the fans that broke in than the stadium and its infrastructure

[@HappySisyphus0]

the difference is that no one cares about the super bowl, for a serious competition they should have been prepared way better than this

[@robinelliott-ni2eh]

Super bowl aint that big considering the huge amounts of big football matches across Europe every year.

[@paha4209]

"I don´t think there were any people in the vents at Wembley!" That would be weird to begin with since the Euros Final was in Berlin as the whole Euros were played in Germany not England. Wembley/London has the next Euros final though since UEFA´s great plan to have the Euros being host a multitude of countries.

[@benmann16]

Referring to the 2020 Euros final at Wembley…

[@paha4209]

@@benmann16 Yeah this one was in Wembley true.

[@Haaton-of-the-Basement]

Is that Beerschot VA Jersey? Looks good ngl. They are back in the Belgian Pro League.

[@Tubsidio]

To me that proved, once again, that USA is not ready for non-US games... if it isnt an american football, basketball or beiseball avg fan, well, they are just not ready... and btw 65 thousand seats and a field smaller than the official ones for real football it is not thaaaat huge, USA is just not ready, I went to way more crazy and overcrowded games here in Brazil, and still there is always a way to deal with it, manage it, organize it all... sorry but, yeah, you guys are not ready for a game that is a worldwide game.

[@flaminup]

I was there, security gave up towards the end and just opened the gates where I was at and let everyone in, didnt even have to show my tickets.

[@Malam_NightYoru]

i mean... the fact you paid that ticket is concerning, this just gives them reason to put the prices even higher... they're stealing from you legally

[@flaminup]

@@Malam_NightYoru its a cup final in my city, who knows when that will happen again? Messi’s possible last final too, I couldnt miss this opportunity, otherwise I wouldnt have paid that much for tickets.

[@frankreynolds9418]

Thank you for emphasizing that it was Colombians.

[@IACOIACOIACO]

10:05 five nights at copa americas

[@niklasniedermaier3712]

Normal Day in Amerika 😂😂😂

[@Kaspa969]

I didn't miss it... but I had to stay up until 6am to watch the whole game because of the delay.

[@cyk719]

i like your water/beverage container

[@kevinmack9980]

gutless that it wasn't postponed

[@pwnd331]

"pushed nearly an hour" you mean well over an hour and almost an hour and half! did you watch it? i kicked out at almost 9:30 vs 8:00

[@BiHMaverick]

Poor Utica.

[@8bitrocketstudios]

Jose and everyone like him need to absolutely sue.

[@kinginthenaught]

Price gouging and can't have proper security and entry. Greed and capitalism at its finest.

[@iandhr1]

You would've hoped that after what happened at Wembley in 2021 lessons could've been learned.