173’2026 (2026-06-22) – World Cup fever
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Every four years, there is the FIFA World Cup in football. This year it is bigger than ever before, 48 national squads competing with arenas in three different countries, Canada, Mexico, and USA. Of course living in Brazil, the only country that has won 5 diffent cups since the start in 1930, make things even more exciting. But since the last time was in 2002, the Brazilian population has many doubts if yet another cup will be won. And the first game between Brazil and Morocco was the dullest game of all in the first round.
But Sweden, that only qualified after an in-play at the end of March, started out excellently, with a 5-1 victory of Tunisia. I am associated with the Swedish-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (Swedcham) and had wanted to participate to watch the game via a big screen there on June 14, but an irritated throat stopped those plans. The Brazilian Youtube channel CazêTV showed some instants from a Swedish goal commemoration, and they were also present with lengthier insertions during the second game, see next paragraph.
It was therefore good to know that Swedcham arranged another supporter get-together during the next game, against the Netherlands, together with its Dutch counterpart. The game could be watched on a beautiful Winter Saturday, June 20, in the Museum of Football, located in the municipal stadium Pacaembú in São Paulo The header photo shows a photo of the stadium. In its lower left side there is an orange colored portal and entering through it, there were two alternate places to enjoy the game. Together with my girlfriend Valéria and my daughter Karina, as well as my Swedish student Vitória and her friend Juliana, we opted to watch the first half of the game in an auditorium inside the stadium. As you can from a photo below, there was a Swedish majority inside, but on the outside where food and drinks could be consumed, the vast majority wore orange jerseys, routing for the Netherlands. Unfortunately, the Dutch squad was far superior in making goals, 5-1. But there is still a lot left of the World Cup!
In reference #1 below is a complete video coverage by CazêTV of the matches played on 171’2026 (2026-06-20), where the game between the Netherlands and Sweden was the first one. In a near future post, I will talk more about the fantastic Musueum of Football.
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