On June 18, Luis Felipe Gómez worked for Colombian airline Avianca Cargo as the regional manager of Europe-Asia.
On June 19, a video showing a group of Colombians drinking alcohol they had sneaked inside a World Cup stadium went viral.
On June 20, Mr Gómez was identified as one of the people in the video and subsequently dismissed for accepting a drink, despite the fact that – according to him – he barely knew the people who had smuggled it in.
Mr Gómez can be seen in the video wearing a cap, with flags painted on his face and taking the first drink according to Colombian news source Pulzo.
The video was posted in good humour – a group of football fans showing off their novel ruse to sneak alcohol inside Russia’s Mordovia Arena before Colombia’s 1-2 defeat to Japan.
By the end of the match, the word “binoculares” was trending on Twitter in Colombia. It could be found on hundreds of different social media accounts, including those of various Colombian news websites.
Source: BBC news
