What could happen if you get too excited during the World Cup? Stay away from windows
Passionate soccer fans can get pretty excited during the World Cup.
They yell, pump their fists, even start hugging people who they don’t know.
Then there is the Miami super-fan who flew through a window.
Here is what happened to one passionate soccer fan watching the action at a Miami bar in 2014. Details from the Miami Herald archives:
The fall
Whether the fan slipped on a beer or flipped at the sudden score, he went tumbling out a Brickell-area bar, luckily landing on an awning instead of the ground below.
Portugal had just tied the U.S. on a last-second goal when the super fan went out and down.
He “looked heartbroken,” said fellow super-fan fan Kenin Yombor.
How it happened
The super fan was reacting to a Portugal goal, and began to lose his balance. “I saw that he knew — he spread his arms to stop himself from falling out, but he saw that he was going out the window.”
He was one of the leaders of the American Outlaws, a fanatical group of U.S. soccer fans. He and hundreds of others packed into Fado’s Irish Pub, 900 S. Miami Ave., for the big match.
The super-fan had stepped onto a ledge to lead cheers in front of the large floor-to-celing windows, which had been opened to fan the stifling heat. The ledge was apparently slippery with spilled beer.
The raucous scene was a familiar one during big games.
“He’s always up there,” said American Outlaw member West Kraemer said. “He stood where he’s stood a million times before.”
The result
After he went out the window, he was taken away by paramedics, but wasn’t seriously injured.
After the chaos — both in the bar and on the field — friends tried to digest what happened.
“It just hit me,” Yombor said to Kraemer. “We tied. After all that, we tied.”
