By the Fox Deportes editorial team
Football continues to gain traction among American Union fans
From Los Angeles to New York, via Chicago, Washington and Boston, thousands of Americans filled squares and bars to see how their team beat Iran and qualified for the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatara sporting and social triumph for a movement that is experiencing vertical growth in the country.
Even the White House expressed its support for the US team with a sign with the slogan ‘Go Team USA, we are all with you’ and President Joe Biden himself, after his speech at an event in Michigan, returned to the stage to tell those present: “United States one, Iran zero. The game is over!”
Their joy at an achievement the United States had not achieved since 2014 mirrored that of millions of Americans, who are breaking records in stadiums, at so-called ‘watch parties’ in bars and on television.
Despite being a weekday and during business hours, to watch today’s Iran-United States game in one of the three restaurants specializing in sports screenings in Central Square, Cambridge (Boston), one had to arrive two hours early or meet the owner.
The owner of the already legendary The Phoenix Landing, Kevin Treanor, an Irishman who opened the venue 27 years ago, explained that in 2002 he went to the World Cup in Japan and Korea and when he returned to his post he started getting lines for come in to watch football matches, mainly from the Premier League, but also from the Spanish league and some from the Italian or French league.
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Treanor, a former minor league player in Ireland, manages a club with 16 giant screens and a capacity of 160 people which today was packed like a sardine can, with many pensioners, but also students from the prestigious universities of Harvard and MIT, both reachable on foot Piazza Centrale metro stop.
Among the attendees was documentary filmmaker Sam Mathius, producer of the 2014 documentary “American Futbol,” which explores how Latino cultures have fostered the development of soccer in Latin American countries and how these Latinos have been instrumental in the growth of the soccer. the world in the United States.
“When I was little you didn’t see bars like this where you could watch football. Now all the bars have been prepared for the World Cup.”
