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<\/p>\nThe party had been raging for hours by the time the bagpipes began to sound and 8,000 Scots started their march through the streets of Little Havana. Ahead of Wednesday\u2019s World Cup match at Miami Stadium against Brazil, Scotland\u2019s supporters \u2014 the Tartan Army \u2014 made their presence known at LoanDepot Park Monday night.<\/p>\n
The Miami Marlins took on the Texas Rangers, but the Scottish fans were more focused on the party than the baseball.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just what we do. We just picked a game. Got nothing to do when the football’s not on, so we go to baseball. Still don\u2019t understand [baseball], but we\u2019ll be going,\u201d said Girvan Easton, of Fife, Scotland.<\/p>\n
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Connor Jardine, left, plays the bagpipes with other people he met in a Facebook group of Tartan fans coming to Miami while other Scots sing a song during a gathering of Tartan Army, Scottish National Football team fans, at Ball & Chain on Monday, June 22, 2026, before a parade down Calle Ocho in Miami, Fla. <\/p>\n
Easton was attending his second ever baseball game. He was a part of the army\u2019s visit to Fenway Park to see the Red Sox on June 14 that culminated with a romp through Boston that drew international attention and viral social media moments \u2014 in particular reports that bars in the city ran out of beer. Easton was confident that the Scots would repeat that performance in Miami.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aBoston was off the chain, but we drank all the drink. We’ve still got plenty of beer here, but once we run out of beer, we maybe see what happens,\u201d Easton said.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: ‘Now the world knows us’: Cape Verde comes to South Florida and wins big in the World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n The crowd in Miami was larger than the roughly 5,000 Scots at Fenway, and every bit as loud as they walked more than a mile from Calle Ocho to the ballpark. Frequent chants of \u201cNo Scotland, No Party\u201d and \u201cSuper John McGinn\u201d, a song that lionizes the team’s star midfielder, broke out.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aWhen I booked the tickets for the baseball I said, \u2018Ah, it’ll be maybe a thousand or couple hundred fans.\u2019 But this? I’ve never seen anything like it. There are so many Scotland fans in Miami together. It’s class, \u200ait makes me proud to be Scottish,\u201d said Gary Cennerazzo from Edinburgh.<\/p>\n \n 1 of 2 A fleet of bagpipers lead the Tartan Army, Scotland’s World Cup fans, down the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami on Monday, June 22.<\/p>\n Carlton Gillespie<\/p>\n \n 2 of 2 The Tartan Army arrives to Loan Depot Park with 8,000 members in tow on Monday, June 22.<\/p>\n Carlton Gillespie<\/p>\n The parade drew plenty of spectators, locals who looked on from street corners and balconies to take in the crowd.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aIt is so amazing, the culture, the vibe. They’re literally bringing so much fun. World peace, I feel, is inevitable with the Tartan Army in Miami,\u201d said onlooker Sandra Sardinas. \u201cAnd they\u2019re on \u200aCalle Ocho too, with all the roosters!\u201d<\/p>\n At one point, the crowd saw two onlookers wearing Argentina jerseys and began to serenade them with a song thanking them for Diego Maradona, the Argentine who controversially helped eliminate Scotland’s hated rival England from the 1986 World Cup.<\/p>\n Once the fans reached the stadium, Marlins fans with g\u00fciras met the lively Scots \u2014 who began chanting in rhythm to the traditional Caribbean percussion instrument. It’s the kind of cultural exchange only possible in a city like Miami, at an event like the World Cup. <\/p>\n Outside LoanDepot park, the mass of Scottish fans created another viral moment <\/a>when they sang and danced along to Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, the 1970’s disco track that has become the Tartan Army’s anthem<\/a>. <\/p>\n Marra X. Finkelstein \/ mfinkelstein@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n \/<\/p>\n Miami Herald<\/p>\n Scotland fans during the gathering of the Tartan Army celebrate at Loan Depot Park in Miami, Fla., on Monday, June 22, 2026. Photo by Marra X. Finkelstein mfinkelstein@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n With feels like temperatures at 100 degrees, fans were relieved to enter Loan Depot Park with its roof closed and air conditioning on full blast.<\/p>\n Another Scottish parade takes place on Miami Beach Tuesday at 2 p.m. The fans celebrating Scotland\u2019s return to the World Cup for the first time in almost three decades are making the most of it.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200a28 years since we were [at the World Cup]. This is what we bring everywhere we come. We’re missed. We’re missed when we’re not here,\u201d said Easton.<\/p>\n Scotland plays Brazil at Miami Stadium on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and after one win and one loss in Group C, the team has a chance to qualify to the elimination rounds for the first time in its history. <\/p>\n Although they have grabbed less headlines, Brazil’s traveling supporters’ group \u2014 along with members of South Florida’s large diaspora \u2014 took over a stretch of Miami Beach<\/a> on Sunday with a colorful display of the team’s famous yellow and green and unmistakable Brazilian drumbeats. <\/p>\n The two nations’ soccer history has some curious connections. The teams were also drawn against each other at the 1998 World Cup, in Scotland’s most recent appearance at the tournament, while it was Scotsman Charles Miller who originally brought the sport to Brazil in 1894 \u2014 setting in place a national obsession that brought a record five World Cup wins for the Brazilian team. <\/p>\n Sign up for WLRN’s\u00a0Soccer Edition newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for World Cup stories \u2014 beyond the scores.<\/p>\n
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