Wife of USA soccer star reveals her traumatic ordeal as she tried to get into the Copa America final with their eight-year-old daughter

The woman of erstwhile USA and Premier League shot subordinate Stuart Holden has explained her horrific ordeal trying to get into Sunday's chaotic Copa America final.

Holden, who played complete 20 times for nan USMNT and represented Bolton, was moving connected nan crippled betwixt Argentina and Colombia arsenic a TV expert for Fox.

But his woman Karalyn and girl Kenna attended nan crippled successful Miami arsenic fans. However, they sewage caught up successful nan terrifying scenes extracurricular nan Hard Rock Stadium that saw immense crushes arsenic fans breached information gates.

Fans were caught connected video jumping complete information railings adjacent nan southwest entranceway of nan stadium and moving past constabulary officers and stadium attendants. 

Screams could beryllium heard successful nan inheritance of footage captured astir nan stadium arsenic group were crushed because of nan immense congestion caused by nan chaos. 

Miami politician Daniella Levine Cava has since admitted she was 'outraged' by nan chaotic scenes astatine nan stadium that is owed to big matches astatine nan 2026 World Cup. 

Sharing her terrifying acquisition connected X connected Monday morning, Holden wrote: 'I brought our 8yr aged to the Copa America final past nighttime & we sewage caught successful nan scary masses extracurricular nan stadium.

'When we sewage to SE Entry gate, location were 1000s of group waiting to get in, gates closed (this was 7pm) As we stood successful nan 90deg heat, bodies pressed against each other, I started to get an atrocious feeling.

'I texted @stuholden who was successful nan stadium, if he knew what was going connected because group were panicking. They kept pushing into my kid, trying to unit their measurement 2 nan beforehand of nan gate, which was still closed.

'It was truthful chaotic I was trying to enactment alert and not connected my phone. I felt truthful bad for Kenna who was truthful small, nan bodies kept smashing into her face, I was successful afloat mama carnivore mode. I looked complete and a woman adjacent to america looked truthful ray & erstwhile I asked her if she was okay, she said no and started to spell down.

'I caught her arsenic she passed out, and landed connected nan ground. She was pinch personification successful a wheelchair chair & couldn’t thief her, I had her connected my lap, and was dumping nan past of Kenna's h2o connected her to cool her down. No 1 other helped us. 

'Her mom (I assume) came pushing thru nan crowd & helped maine get her to her feet. They took nan feline retired of nan wheelchair and put her successful nan seat. Mind you each of this is happening arsenic we are assemblage to assemblage pinch group still trying to get astir us, stepping complete maine while I’m helping her connected nan ground this each happened successful nan first 15 min of america successful this crowd. 

'We stood location for different 40 min, trying to fig retired a solution pinch Stu via text, who was besides astir to spell unrecorded connected air. I stayed put for fearfulness of nan masses rushing nan gates until I sewage an update. I saw that Euros 2020 documentary astir that breach - I wasn’t f***ing pinch a stampede. 

'Two guys who stayed adjacent to america nan full time, & who I happily updated erstwhile I sewage info from inside, helped maine create a obstruction astir Kenna. We were retired location for complete an hour. I americium truthful angry pinch Conmebol for putting everyone successful danger. There should person been a perimeter group up wayyyy extracurricular nan stadium. Take notes from FIFA.

'I’m thankful for nan information guards who helped get america retired of there. I cognize others weren’t arsenic fortunate. Even erstwhile astatine our seats, location were respective Colombian fans successful our statement and surrounding section.

'None of them had tickets & were yet expelled aft myself and others pleaded pinch nan underpaid/overworked information to person nan constabulary cheque tickets. Also, nan gross we waited an hr retired was bumrushed instantly arsenic we were escorted retired of there, group shoving guards retired of nan measurement and breaking nan barricades successful beforehand of us. I can’t thief but deliberation astir really we were almost caught successful that and really gladsome I americium I stayed put.

'Sooo if nan net tin do its thing, I would emotion to find these guys who helped maine barricade Kenna and support her safe for an hr - they’re from Wyoming, and said this was their first “huge game” for illustration this. Thank you convey you, I dream they ended up having fun!'.

The crippled betwixt Argentina and Colombia was delayed by much than an hr because of nan crowd issues. Fans without tickets were fto successful to easiness nan congestion but past they flooded nan stadium pinch nary seats available.

Mayor Levine Cava insists they will now transportation retired a 'full review' of nan incident aft an embarrassing section for some nan metropolis of Miami and nan stadium.

A connection from politician Levine Cava and main nationalist information serviceman James Reyes read: 'We are outraged by nan unprecedented events astatine tonight's Copa America finals.

'The Copa America last is organized by CONMEBOL, and Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) provides information support on pinch different rule enforcement agencies.

'Tonight MDPD assigned complete 550 officers to nan stadium, including our Priority Response Team, and is utilizing each imaginable resources to proceed to guarantee a safe acquisition for each attendees. In addition, MDPD brought successful much unit from different jurisdictions to support everyone's information and wellbeing.

'Our apical privilege must beryllium nan information and information of each our residents and visitors, and we impulse everyone successful attendance astatine tonight's crippled to abide by each directives from rule enforcement and information unit for nan information of each attendees.

'We person besides received a information briefing from stadium operations regarding nan scheme to support fans successful safely exiting aft nan crippled tonight, and we proceed to impulse each attendees to salary adjacent attraction to each accusation and updates from rule enforcement and stadium staff.

'Let's beryllium clear: This business should ne'er person taken spot and cannot hap again. 

'We will activity pinch stadium activity to guarantee that a afloat reappraisal of tonight's events takes spot instantly to measure nan afloat concatenation of events, successful bid to put successful spot needed protocols and policies for each early games.'

A fistful of group could beryllium seen receiving aesculapian curen and asking for h2o successful nan sweltering South Florida heat. 

Officers were capable to push nan crowd down nan gates and fastener down nan entranceway truthful that nary 1 could get inside, though plentifulness of fans pinch tickets had already made it to their seats earlier then.

Security initially appeared to unfastened gates somewhat to let only a fistful a fans successful astatine a time, while different angry attendees pushed against nan railings.

After reclosing nan gates, information began letting fans successful slow astir 8:10pm, pinch nan caller kickoff clip group for 9:15pm but nan commotion did not stop. 

Fans again collapsed done nan railings, truthful galore filing successful that information scanners rocked backmost and distant from nan force.

Fans wearing cogwheel from some teams started moving successful aggregate directions, immoderate carrying children connected their shoulders. Tickets were not being scanned and fewer constabulary officers aliases stadium officials could beryllium seen successful nan oversea of people.

Some fans started climbing complete fences to get in. Three constabulary officers were seen placing handcuffs connected a instrumentality pinch a Colombia emblem connected a ramp that leads to nan stadium's seats.

The commotion up of nan last was nan culmination of a bid of issues passim nan 32-match tournament, from complaints astir nan playing surfaces to criticisms of officials and concerns astir subordinate safety.