Sao Paulo has tightened security ahead of the first NFL game in South America after players voiced concerns about traveling to Latin America's largest country, the Brazilian state said Wednesday.
Sao Paulo has tightened security ahead of the first NFL game in South America after players voiced concerns about traveling to Latin America's largest country, the Brazilian state said Wednesday.on Friday at Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, the first NFL game on the continent and the first Week 1 game held on a Friday evening since 1970."We had a meeting with a whole bunch of 'don't do's.
"I'm like, NFL why y'all wanna send us somewhere where the crime rate is this high and we out the country? You know, the first thing people are thinking is like some terror could possibly happen. I told my family do not come down there because I'm not going to be nowhere to be found. I'm going to be in the hotel chilling, minding my business, playing my game after a long 9½-hour flight.
"To guarantee the safety of the players, the military police will reinforce the number of personnel upon arrival of the delegations at the Guarulhos Airport and escort the teams to their hotels, training sites and the stadium," it said in a statement. Authorities will also carry out a sweep at the stadium before the games.
Brazil in 2023 ranked 17th most dangerous country in the world by murder rate, according to Statista data, below Latin American peers such as Ecuador and Mexico -- where NFL has held games since 2005 with security concerns also voiced. Sao Paulo state says the local homicide rate is four times lower than the national average and compares to that of California, while standing below Washington D.C., for example.
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