{"id":256312,"date":"2026-06-05T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256312\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:55:08","slug":"soccer-bar-in-brooklyn-unites-world-cup-fans-over-mexican-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256312\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer bar in Brooklyn unites World Cup fans over Mexican food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A soccer-themed bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is bringing together World Cup fans to enjoy Mexican food from acclaimed restaurant owners, chefs and investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Socceria is a cantina from the team behind Taqueria Ramirez and Carnitas Ramirez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about soccer, the beautiful game, is how sports-loving people and food-loving people come together to create wonderful things, which is exactly what Tania Apolinar and Gio Cervantes did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic duo teamed up with Josh Borock and John Hilmes to create the establishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/new-6am-socceria-lme-hi-res-still-00-01-0413.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"new-6am-socceria-lme-hi-res-still-00-01-0413.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Socceria in Brooklyn brings together World Cup fans.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a dream for us to have a cantina concept. And when we met Josh and we started talking about this like a soccer bar, we pretty much connected the dots. It&#8217;s something that goes well in Mexico,&#8221; Apolinar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also helps that Borock is a huge fan of the United States men&#8217;s national team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up playing soccer, so in the 70s I became a massive fan, played through high school. And then in &#8217;94, when we got the World Cup, I was able to go to a few matches,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My friends all caught the bug. We became football obsessed.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News New York&#8217;s Luis Miguel Echegaray asked Borock if there would be any rivalry issues with the Mexican restaurant team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s football for everybody. I&#8217;m a U.S. fan. They&#8217;re Mexico fans. Everybody else here has a country that they love and support. It&#8217;s all love in here,&#8221; Borock responded. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want everybody to come here. So it&#8217;s football that unites us all. So it&#8217;s just, you know, we need that,&#8221; Apolinar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Socceria is trying to be not just a World Cup restaurant but a place where all different people can come together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soccer-themed bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is bringing together World Cup fans to enjoy Mexican food from acclaimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2422,9,24,63,14771],"class_list":["post-256312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-greenpoint","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}