Copa America apologizes to Uruguay for playing wrong national anthem vs. Mexico
It wasn't a good start for the 15-time winners
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Uruguay opened up its Copa America campaign on Sunday night against Mexico, and things weren't looking good before the match even started. Aside from not having Luis Suarez due to injury, the wrong national anthem played for Uruguay before the match. Seriously. The Chilean national anthem was played in place of the Uruguayan anthem, take a look.
As you can imagine, the reaction on Twitter was a mix of funny, sad and stunned.
Hearing that wasn't the Uruguayan national anthem. Uruguayan press not at all happy in the press box. Rightly so.
— Tom Marshall (@mexicoworldcup) June 6, 2016
How disgraceful whoever played Chile's national anthem for Uruguay... I'd be pissed if I was from Uruguay... #CopaAmerica
— Ron Sicat (@DatFlipBoiRon) June 6, 2016
Still dead about how they played Chile's national Anthem for Uruguay 😂 #CopaAmerica
— 헤네이 디아스 (@jenediaz11) June 6, 2016
Is it worse to have the wrong country's anthem played (like Uruguay), or have the Borat version of your anthem played (like Kazakhstan)?
— ★ (@VinceDeLaBass) June 6, 2016
Oh my..how do you play the Chilean national anthem for Uruguay...
— Roger Gonzalez (@RGonzalezCBS) June 6, 2016
Things even got a little nasty between the two fan bases.
URU fans upset at wrong anthem tried to tear tifo. We tried to bring it down and they continued to fight. Cont. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/emEeHR3fc7
— Pancho Villa's Army (@VillasArmy) June 6, 2016
(2/2) we tried talking to them. Tried calming them down. In the end we called security for everyone's safety. pic.twitter.com/TOdLSpEJeO
— Pancho Villa's Army (@VillasArmy) June 6, 2016
Officials from the Copa America quickly sent out a statement as to what happened, which helps nothing.
Statement from Copa America on playing Chile national anthem for Uruguay before match vs. Mexico pic.twitter.com/V77q9i36BF
— Roger Gonzalez (@RGonzalezCBS) June 6, 2016
You had one job, anthem person. One job.
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