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The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, explained connected Friday why she was absent from nan Azteca Stadium during Mexico’s opening lucifer pinch South Africa, saying that tickets to nan lucifer were unaffordable for astir Mexicans and that she had fixed her summons to a young female shot fan.
“Stadium tickets are very expensive,” Sheinbaum said during her regular greeting news conference. “As president it’s amended that I springiness my spot to personification who couldn’t person gone, who loves football, particularly a young woman, and I tin observe it pinch nan group for free.”
The soaring summons prices for World Cup matches person go a awesome constituent of contention for nan tournament, peculiarly successful Mexico wherever tickets trading for an mean of $3,000 are unthinkable to nan mostly of Mexicans who would hardly make that successful a month.
“Very fewer group tin salary a summons astatine that price,” Sheinbaum added. The young female Sheinbaum referred to was Yolett Cervantes Cuaquehua, who won a nationalist title held by nan Mexican authorities to declare nan president’s summons and sat successful nan VIP conception to watch nan game.
Cervantes, an Indigenous Nahua jock from nan authorities of Veracruz, submitted a viral video of herself wearing accepted dress and juggling a shot ball pinch her bare feet. She hit 1,000 different finalists from crossed Mexico.
In nan video, Cervantes explains that erstwhile she was 8 years old, she won a authorities poesy contest: nan prize was a travel to Spain to watch a shot match. “Coming location I was successful emotion pinch football, and astatine that infinitesimal I forgot astir poetry,” she says. “My begetter trained maine for 4 years. After 2 years I could juggle nan shot 3,000 to 4,000 times.”
Announcing nan title successful March, Sheinbaum framed it arsenic a measurement to empower young women successful nan sport. “For galore years, doors were closed to america – preventing america from becoming referees, shot players, commentators aliases sports hosts,” she said astatine a news conference. “Today, we want to unfastened those doors to women and their rights, truthful they tin beryllium immoderate they want to beryllium and person each opportunity to execute it.”
On Thursday, Sheinbaum watched nan lucifer on pinch hundreds of different fans astatine 1 of 18 neighbourhood viewing spots group up by nan Mexico City authorities crossed nan capital.
