Around 1:00 in the morning, about 45 Mexican fans approached the hotel where the England team is staying and they carried out a serenade with drums and fireworks, according to the Mexican press.
With the aim of the English having a good rest hours before facing Mexico in the round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup, a security operation guarded the surroundings of the hotel where the soccer players were concentrated, to prevent the same thing as happening with Ecuador.
El Tri fans arrived in the early hours of Sunday, July 5, near the JW Marriott Mexico City Santa Fe with music at full volume. In addition, they performed songs and even used plastic trumpets to make noise.
The diary Excelsior He stressed that the “serenade” was much smaller, brief and distant than the one that Ecuador, Mexico’s rival in the round of 32, received days before.
A journalist from the British network GB News came to talk to the fans while the “serenade” was taking place.
“This is crazy.”. “They are clearly Mexican fans,” said English journalist Ben Leo, quoted by the newspaper. The Nation.
🎤🇬🇧 Adriano Zendejas organized the serenade near the hotel where the England team is staying.
The Mexican streamer, better known as Maestro Shifu, posed as a reporter to interview the fans who came to “annoy” the… pic.twitter.com/VVeVedsMRS
— Becky Reynoso (@BeckyReynoso) July 5, 2026
Afterwards, Ben Leo spoke with the officers preventing access to buildingsbut they explained that they could not arrest the fans.
According to Infobaeelements of the Secretariat of Citizen Security They intervened to remove the fanseven with pushing.
The British newspaper The Sun stated that the families and partners of the English footballers implemented an extensive security device during his stay in Mexico City.
Journalist José Ramón Fernández, from ESPN, assured on social networks that the serenade had no effect, since, according to witnesses, “The noise was barely noticeable.”
SERENATE… WITHOUT EFFECT.
Mexican fans went to sing and set off fireworks near the England concentration hotel.
However, hotel witnesses claim that the noise was barely perceptible. pic.twitter.com/6agGu8J1RS
— José Ramón Fernández (@joserra_espn) July 5, 2026
He also explained that the “serenades” They are not new or exclusive to Mexicosince Ecuador did one to Mexico in 1993, just as England did it before the 2020 Euro Cup final.
“Make it a common practice doesn’t mean it’s correct”said the journalist.
The international press attributes the “serenade” to Mexican streamer Adriano Zendejasknown as Master Shifu, in the vicinity of the JW Marriott hotel.
Infobae He pointed out that the influencer He pretended to be a reporter to enter the restricted area. Minutes later his followers arrived, and the pyrotechnics generated noise.
‘They can’t arrest them’
Ben Leo confronts Mexico fans causing disturbances with fireworks and band music outside the England team’s hotel. pic.twitter.com/mA536SbAi6
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 5, 2026
Neither Adriano Zendejas nor any member of his team were arrested, despite rumors about a possible arrest.
Shortly after, the fans left without confrontations or arrests, while the security forces reinforced the perimeter to keep the English delegation isolated and protected.