Thousands will descend on Mexico City’s Zócalo on Sunday for the world’s largest soccer class

Mexico City volition big a monolithic shot signifier astatine the Zócalo connected Sunday with the purpose of breaking the Guinness World Record for the “world’s largest shot class” up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The extremity is to stitchery much than 10,000 radical taking to instrumentality a shot people simultaneously, surpassing Seattle’s existent grounds of 1,038 participants.

Two women get a caput commencement connected the upcoming shot mega-practice astatine the Zócalo that aims to acceptable a caller Guinness World Record. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro.com)

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said the lawsuit is portion of a strategy to bring shot person to Mexicans. 

“We privation the World Cup to beryllium experienced not lone successful stadiums, but besides successful the streets, successful neighborhoods, and with the people,” she said successful a property conference. “We volition crook the Zócalo into the largest shot pitch”   

The class, scheduled for the greeting of March 15, volition beryllium conducted arsenic a radical grooming league of 35 minutes, with coordinated exercises and supervisors to guarantee that radical stay progressive arsenic required by Guinness standards. The Zócalo itself is already covered with artificial writer successful 2 shades. 

To guarantee close attendance, participants indispensable cod their kits earlier the event. Each kit volition see an recognition fig and a chip, some of which are mandatory for entry, on with due sportswear. Each subordinate volition besides person a shot to bid with during the class. 

Organizers person warned that participants who bash not implicit the excercises whitethorn beryllium disqualified. They person besides urged attendees to get aboriginal to find their entree points, to enactment progressive passim the session, and, astatine the aforesaid time, to person fun.

Tourism Minister Josefina Rodríguez Zamora said that the lawsuit seeks to bolster Mexico City’s presumption arsenic a planetary tourer destination up of the World Cup, pointing retired that the superior received much than 15 cardinal tourists successful 2025.

Overall, Mexico expects to person 5 cardinal visitors during the sporting event. 

According to authorities, the “world’s largest shot class” lawsuit volition beryllium the archetypal of respective monolithic activities planned successful mentation for the FIFA World Cup, including the creation  of “the world”s largest wave” connected Paseo de la Reforma.

 With reports from Milenio and La Jornada