It all happened hours before the opening match between Mexico and South Africa. 🫀 A foreign man of approximately 80 years old suffered cardiac arrest in front of Gate 1 of Estadio Ciudad de México on June 11, 2026, amid the height of World Cup euphoria. SSC personnel and private doctors deployed for the event acted immediately: resuscitation maneuvers at the scene, urgent transfer to the Cardiology Hospital. And they revived him.
Meanwhile, on social media the story had already taken another turn: dozens of posts claimed that the fan had died. The rumor spread as fast as the celebration outside the stadium. 📲 The Mexico City Citizen Security Secretariat had to issue an official statement to deny it: the patient is reported to be stable.
The match went on, the ceremony did not stop, and a grandfather who traveled all the way to Mexico to experience the World Cup ended the day in a hospital bed… but alive. 🙏