And on to the party at the Angel, where Mexicans celebrate every soccer victory…
UPDATE: For more photos of DF soccer craziness, check out Camilo Smith’s blog, I Know Huh, and Daniel Hernandez’s post at La Plaza, the LA Times Latina American blog. Great stuff.
Stumbled across you blog & waving hello from GDL! I could hear roars of laughter and clapping throughout the afternoon. It was my cue that Mexico scored as I chased my toddler & dog around our backyard 🙂
How I wish I’d also had my camera after THE game!!! Here in Merida Yucatan, I saw a young guy on an old Vespa (sans helmet, replaced by huge sombrero) weave his way up to the congested intersection by our “Monumento a la Bandera.” An enormous tricolor flag splayed out behind him and his functioning vocabulary had been reduced to three repeatedly screamed words, “¡VIVA!… ¡MEXICO!.. ¡C-U-A-H!”.
One of our city’s finest had just parked his black shiny Harley. He saw the kid and signaled for him to get down and come over. I watched, fearing what would happen next. The officer clamped a meaty hand on the teenager’s scrawny shoulder and told him, “You stand here by me and wave!” The two cycles were parked side by side and together, the aging pot-bellied policeman and the skinny young man, waving our nation’s flag and still yelling, “¡VIVA!… ¡MEXICO!… ¡C-U-A-H!” directed the the happy fans through the bottlenecked traffic.
This is so EXCITING!!! Mexico 2 France 1! How do I watch all 3 games every day and still have a life? Oh wait, the World Cup is my life for these 30 days! Viva Mexico!
Kathleen
For the first time since I moved, I got all verklempt about Mexico. The portrait of Jesica did me in!
Chicharitoooooooooo!
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France win. YAY!
Uruguay loss. :——-{
The kid with the mohawk is awesome. Great shots.