fans<\/a> dressed in patriotic attire for the match.<\/p>\n“We’re coming here to watch the U.S. play,” Wilson said. “We couldn’t make it out to Los Angeles for this game, so we wanted to get as close as we could.”<\/p>\n
Several supporters dressed up for the patriotic occasion, including Jenni Tavares.<\/p>\n
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“This is a USA T-shirt that I bought from Target, then I have this American hat and sunglasses,” Tavares said. “I was like, perfect, this will work.”<\/p>\n
Elvia Flores expects the excitement to continue throughout the World Cup.<\/p>\n
“It’s only going to get busier, crazier and wilder,” Flores said.<\/p>\n
Pubs see business boost<\/p>\n
Local perspective<\/p>\n
Hours earlier, Mary Margaret’s Olde Irish Tavern was filled with fans watching Canada take on Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n
Soccer fan Luke Miseyko says the best part of the World Cup is bringing people from different countries together.<\/p>\n
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“No matter who’s playing, you’re going to find someone from that country that’s here enjoying it,” Miseyko said.<\/p>\n
Mary Margaret’s co-owner Kat Van Dora expects the six-week tournament to bring in big business.<\/p>\n
“We get so many international people and so many proud people,” Van Dora said. “They’ll come out and watch their country, so we’re happy to host them.”<\/p>\n
Future watch parties<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
The Rowdies are also hosting watch parties during Team USA’s two remaining group-stage games.<\/p>\n
The next watch party will take place on June 19 at Jannus Live, when the Americans face Australia at 3 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another watch party is scheduled for June 25\u00a0at Ferg’s, as the U.S. takes on Turkey at 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
The information in this story was gathered from interviews with local fans Scott Wilson, Jenni Tavares, Luke Miseyko, and Elvia Flores, as well as Mary Margaret’s Olde Irish Tavern co-owner Kat Van Dora. Details regarding upcoming watch parties were provided by the Tampa Bay Rowdies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief More than 3,000 fans attended a massive World Cup watch party in downtown St. Petersburg to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17222,5725,128158,128156,50746,128157,202,204,203,199,201,200,22385,128159,52320,9611],"class_list":["post-306691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-downtown-st-petersburg","tag-jannus-live","tag-mary-margaret","tag-olde-irish-tavern","tag-paraguay","tag-scott-wilson","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-rowdies","tag-u-s-mens-national-team","tag-watch-party","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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