FIFA World Cup day 4 recap: Curacao lose history-making game; Dutch drop points | Football News
Before the World Cup began, a video of the Curacao team went viral. In it, the players are arriving in an old-fashioned blue school bus with no windows, players sticking their arms out and banging away on the metal exterior from the outside. The video was meant to portray the down-to-earth vibe of the team headed to its first ever World Cup. On Sunday, though, Curacao were dreaming of their campaign taking flight in Houston, the space capital of the USA. For a brief phase, fans and players even dared to day dream of an upset over Germany. Never mind that they were playing their first-ever game in the country’s history at the FIFA World Cup or that their opponents have won the World Cup four times. Never mind that it’s a tiny island in the Caribbean with a population of just over 1,58,000 inhabitants and a land area of 171 square miles. Never mind that their opponents, with a population of 83.6 million, are the most populous country in the European Union and the …
