Typical! Evidently copy editors are a thing of the past... (Although for an organization as large as CNN, you'd really think someone would have caught this mistake!)
The video clip of that soccer player was on the front page of Reddit. Pretty sad that this sort of crowd interference is permitted. I can only imagine the outrage if someone tried to distract the batter at a major league baseball game like this. (Or an NBA player during a free throw attempt.)
Adam
People have done it at monster truck rallies I've worked at, mostly to distract the driver into "redlighting" during a racing bracket. It works pretty well when the driver is edging for any sense of a green flash.
Sincerely,
Ryan Smith
ScannerMAX Mechanical Engineer
ryan {at} scannermax.com