All bets are off! Mexican soccer fan is paraded through the streets like a dog

All bets are off! Mexican soccer fan is paraded through the streets like a dog after he lost a friendly wager to his best friend

  • Marco Coreño and Erick Muñoz wagered on Saturday night’s Cruz Azul-Club América Liga MX soccer game in Mexico City
  • Coreño told DailyMail.com he and his best friend had made countless money wagers in the past but decided to make more interesting recently
  • The pals agreed that the loser of the bet would have to be paraded like a dog in the streets of Mexico City
  • Coreño’s Cruz Azul was beaten 7-0, trailing 3-0 at halftime but he said he never thought about walking back on his bet
  • In addition to being paraded like a pooch, Coreño also had to cut all of his hair 

There’s putting your money where you mouth is — and then there’s putting your body where your mouth is.

A pair of friends from Mexico decided to spice up their ongoing bet over the Club América-Cruz Azul clash in Liga MX, the top Mexican soccer division. 

Instead of their usual bets involving money, laptops or headphones, Marco Coreño and Erick Muñoz agreed the loser would be paraded around the streets of Mexico city on a leash and posting it on social media.

Speaking to DailyMail.com by phone, Coreño wasn’t too sure history was about to repeat itself this time around after he hooked a leash to Muñoz’s neck and made him crawl down a street in the Mexican capital a couple of years back after Cruz Azul beat Club América.

Marco Coreño (left) and Erick Muñoz (right) are best friends and fans of Mexican powerhouse soccer clubs Cruz Azul and Club América, respectively. For years they have bet on which team will win. Club América easily won 7-0 on Saturday night, which meant that Coreño had to be paraded like a dog through the streets of Mexico City and also have his head shaven, as seen in this photo

Erick Muñoz starts to parade his best friend Marco Coreño after he won a friendly soccer wager. Muñoz's Club América jumped out to a 3-0 halftime lead and walked away with a 7-0 victory as Estadio Azteca in Mexico City

Erick Muñoz starts to parade his best friend Marco Coreño after he won a friendly soccer wager. Muñoz’s Club América jumped out to a 3-0 halftime lead and walked away with a 7-0 victory as Estadio Azteca in Mexico City

Coreño told DailyMail.com he never considered backing down from the bet because he values the friendship that he and Muñoz have

Coreño told DailyMail.com he never considered backing down from the bet because he values the friendship that he and Muñoz have

It certainly wasn’t the case Saturday night when Club America jumped out to a 3-0 lead at halftime and went on to beat Cruz Azul 7-0.

‘Check it out, I saw Cruz Azul as very weak, really. I felt that I was going to lose. But I never imagined for such a marker,” Coreño said.

After the game, the pals made their way to one of the busy streets in Mexico City as Coreño got ready to hold up his end of the bet and got down on his knees was crawled down the block as bystanders looked on in amazement.

Bystanders look on as Erick Muñoz lead his friend Marco Coreño down a Mexico City street after winning a soccer bet

Bystanders look on as Erick Muñoz lead his friend Marco Coreño down a Mexico City street after winning a soccer bet

Marco Coreño

Erick Muñoz

Instead of their usual bets involving money, laptops or headphones for the Cruz Azul-Club América soccer showdown Saturday night, Marco Coreño (left) and Erick Muñoz (right)  agreed the loser would be paraded around the streets of Mexico city on a leash and posting it on social media

In addition, Coreño also had to have his head shaven. 

“With him there is a brotherhood that goes beyond (the bet). We had already given our words,” he explained. ‘We are men and we pay up. We were going to back down. I believe there is no problem if you lose, but if you don’t pay, people will tell you, ‘Oh, stop messing around. You have no honor. You are not a man. You don’t pay your bets.’

“On the other hand, maybe they will laugh at you, they will make fun of you, but oh well, they will say he is a man because he keeps his word.”

Said Muñoz: “We have always been making it clear that our bets lose or win, our friendship will always be the same because now I beat him and he complied just as I did with him. He is a good friend of mine.” 

Cruz Azul and Club America are not scheduled to meet again during the regular season and could only face each other once the Liga MX playoffs come around.

“Next time we’ll see what happens. There will be a revenge (bet) because there will be one,” Coreño said. “He already knows. From the beginning we agreed to keep on until we got bored. Until we say, ‘That’s it, well, we’ve already humiliated ourselves many times and that’s how he’s going to end.’ But at the moment the bets are still going forward.”