Vancouver’s 1st World Cup recreation sees 2 arrests, no main incidents: police

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Police in Vancouver say there have been no main incidents throughout the metropolis’s first ever World Cup recreation between Australia and Turkey.

A Vancouver Police Division assertion says one particular person was arrested on the fan pageant on the Pacific Nationwide Exhibition for being in breach of court-imposed circumstances, however not the occasion itself.

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It says {that a} second particular person was faraway from BC Place throughout the match for being too intoxicated and refusing to depart.

The assertion says that contemplating the scale of the occasion, two arrests is minimal and could be a small quantity even for a daily Saturday evening.


The primary of seven matches to be performed at BC Place was formally bought out, with an attendance of 52,497 and the finale whistle left Australian followers ecstatic as their Socceroos beat the favoured Turkish nationwide crew two targets to nil.

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Vancouver will host its subsequent match on Thursday, June 18, when Canada hosts Qatar.

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