Soccer fan falls from bar window
MIAMI — Passionate soccer fans can get pretty excited. They yell and pump their fists, and even start hugging people whom they don’t know. Then there is the Miami superfan who flew through a window.
Whether Eric Corey slipped on a beer or flipped at the sudden score, he went tumbling out a Brickell-area bar, luckily landing on an awning instead of the ground below.
Portugal had just tied the U.S. on a last-second goal when Corey went out and down.
“Eric looked heartbroken,” said fellow superfan Kenin Yombor, explaining that as Corey reacted to the Portugal goal, he began to lose his balance. “I saw that he knew — he spread his arms to stop himself from falling out, but he saw that he was going out the window.”
The superfan had stepped onto a ledge to lead cheers in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows. The ledge was apparently slippery with spilled beer.
