SoCal Viewing Parties Set For Mexico-Czech Republic World Cup Match

LOS ANGELES, CA — Viewing parties for Wednesday's Mexico-Czech Republic World Cup match will be held throughout Los Angeles County, including at three Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks recreation centers, where all six of the day's matches will be shown.

The parties at Plaza Mexico in Lynwood and at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles will begin at 4 p.m., and the one at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium Plaza at 4:30 p.m.

Additional watch parties for the 6 p.m. Group A match from Azteca Stadium in Mexico City will be held at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown L.A. and Tellefson Park in Culver City, both beginning at 6 p.m.

Watch parties will also be held at the Cheviot Hills, South Park and El Sereno recreation centers as part of the Kick It In the Park parties organized by various city of Los Angeles departments that also include youth soccer clinics, neighborhood programming and community resources.

Attendance is limited to 1,000 people at a time. Alcohol sale, possession and consumption is not permitted. Attendees are advised by organizers to bring blankets, chairs, snacks and reusable water bottles.

More information is available at kickit.lacity.gov.

The Hammer Museum in Westwood will also show the Mexico-Czech Republic match and Wednesday's other five matches.

The Mexico-Czech Republic match will be televised in English by Fox and in Spanish by Telemundo.

A watch party organized by Radio Korea for the South Korea-South Africa match will begin at 3 p.m. at The Source OC in Buena Park.

Wednesday's play will begin at noon with the Group B matches between Canada and Switzerland and Bosnia-Herzegovina and Qatar.

The Group C matches between Brazil and Scotland and Haiti and Morocco will both begin at 3 p.m.

The other Group A match -- which pits South Africa against South Korea -- will also begin at 6 p.m.

The final games of each group are played at the same time to avoid situations where teams could manipulate the outcome of their matches based on the results of other matches.

Fox will also televise the Canada-Switzerland and Brazil-Scotland matches. FS1 will provide English language coverage of the Bosnia-Herzegovina- Qatar, Haiti-Morocco and South Africa-South Korea matches.

Telemundo will also televise the Canada-Switzerland and Brazil- Scotland matches. Universo will provide Spanish language coverage of the Bosnia- Herzegovina-Qatar, Haiti-Morocco and South Africa-South Korea matches.

Mexico won both of its matches and is assured of winning Group A and playing host to a round-of-32 match June 30 at Azteca Stadium against one of the eight teams finishing third in its group.

The Czech Republic is third in the group with a 0-1-1 record and a minus-1 goal differential. A victory and a loss by South Korea against South Africa would assure it second place in the group and a spot in the knockout round.

If South Korea and the Czech Republic both win, South Korea would finish second with a 2-1-0 record and six points, while the Czech Republic would have four points and have to wait and see if its four points and goal difference are high enough to be one of the eight best third-place teams

The Opta supercomputer gives Mexico a 48 percent chance of wining based on 10,000 pre-match simulations, the Czech Republic a 27.9 percent chance while a tie occurs in 24.1 percent of the simulations.