{"id":76782,"date":"2026-08-21T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/76782\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:32:10","slug":"german-cup-match-marred-by-fireworks-pitch-invasion-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/76782\/","title":{"rendered":"German Cup match marred by fireworks, pitch invasion :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANNHEIM, Germany (AP) \u2014 A German Cup match between Waldhof Mannheim and Kaiserslautern was halted for about half an hour on Friday as fans threw fireworks and other objects and invaded the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The match was tied at 0-0 and heading into extra time when fans at both ends of the ground threw flares and objects, narrowly missing some of the players as they ran from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Some Mannheim supporters made it on to the pitch before officers in riot gear and mounted police fanned out to push them back.<\/p>\n<p>German news agency dpa says the match resumed after a delay of just under 30 minutes. Ibrahim Kanate scored in the last minute of extra time, giving second-division Kaiserslautern a 1-0 win to advance to the second round of the German Cup.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>\n                See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here\n              <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANNHEIM, Germany (AP) \u2014 A German Cup match between Waldhof Mannheim and Kaiserslautern was halted for about half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13659,953,5],"class_list":["post-76782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}