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The FIFA Club World Cup is underway, where some of the best professional football teams around the world are in competition to see who is at the top of the job.
But, the madness of foreign football fans struck the United States, the chaos that followed in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon.
Manchester City of the Premier League in England and Wydad AC, which participate in Morocco Botola, took the ground on Lincoln Financial Field on Wednesday – but the players were not the only ones or objects on the ground.
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A demonstrator invaded the field and the fans released smoke rashes during the Wednesday World Cup match in Philadelphia. (AP; Imagn)
During the match, the demonstrators invaded the field. The pitch invaders took the ground with a sign that said “Morocco! Stop drawing dogs and cats”.
He ran a few seconds before being approached by safety workers and escorted outside the stadium. One of the shirts and signs of the demonstrators included the Peta logo (people for the ethical treatment of animals).
According to Peta, “the shelter cats and dogs in Morocco are slaughtered, poisoned and left to die in cages without food or water”. The government has expanded a program “Trap, Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate and Return” for stray animals, but the activists said that animals were killed rather than sterilized.
Peta wrote on the incident on X.
“Activists stormed the field @fifacwc to exhibit the mass fire in Morocco, poisoning and living burns of dogs and cats before the FIFA 2030 World Cup in order to make the streets of the country presentable,” Peta wrote.
“Call the Moroccan government to put an end to the massacre of homeless animals and to tell the FIFA to stop while the animals die.”
Morocco is one of the hosts of the 2030 World Cup.
A pitch invader is withdrawn by security during the world group’s football match G between Manchester City and Wydad AC in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP photo / Chris Szagola)
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Later, the atmosphere of the game became potentially dangerous, while Wydad fans have launched smoke surges on the field. Fire cookies were also said to have been thrown in the field. An push launched behind the caretaker of Manchester City Ederson caused a brief stop in the second period.
Phil Foden de Manchester City scored two minutes after the match and then had a decisive pass to lead the power of the Premier League to a 2-0 victory.
In the 88th minute, Rico Lewis was shown a red card after a fault on Samuel Obeng, leaving City with 10 men on the ground.
Fans of Wydad Casablanca with light rockets in the stands during a group phase game of the FIFA 2025 club World Cup at Lincoln Financial Field. (Brian Snyder-Reuters via Imagn Images)
Manchester City runs group G and will face Al-Ain on Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Wydad remains in Philadelphia, where he will face another difficult opponent for Juventus.
