Analysis of Crowd Management Issues that Caused Delay in Copa America Final
By Prof. Gil Fried, University of West Florida
The championship match between Argentina and Columbia started more than an hour late at Hard Rock Stadium, one of the host sites for the 2026 World Cup, because of crowd issues, including fans breaching security gates. There was a sellout crowd of more than 65,000.
Video posted on social media showed fans, often wearing Colombia’s yellow and red colors, jumping over security railings near the southwest entrance of the stadium and runni