Miami has hosted some of the biggest events in South American and Caribbean sports, including Colombia's match on Saturday. Brazil and Uruguay have also played World Cup games there.
When two former World Cup champions clashed, AP photojournalist Ricardo Mazalan expected the Spain-Uruguay to be an intense, hard-fought contest -- especially with Uruguay trying to avoid elimination.
Uruguay's football federation (AUF) are believed to have canceled the team's chartered flight home to punish their players after the team failed to get progress to knockout stages.