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By now, even the least athletic of all Dallasites know the World Cup has officially begun<\/a>. <\/p>\n And while there are many reasons to be excited \u2014 watch parties, festivals, proximity to a global conversation \u2014 above all else, the tournament brings an innumerable number of international men to our front door. Daters everywhere have begun to realize the unique opportunity presented by the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n For the completely uninitiated, the tournament is hosted across North America and has stationed teams across the continent. We were lucky enough to get the Swedish and the Czech Republic national teams and their entire entourages. But in Big D, we have unique access not granted to other cities. The city is also the official broadcast center for the entire tournament, welcoming roughly 3,000 journalists.<\/a> So not only are we privy to the teams that are honorary Texans for the next five weeks, but we also host a deep bench of camera-ready commentators from across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sign up for the Arts & Culture newsletter to get the latest stories delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n THANK YOU!<\/p>\n You’re all set.<\/p>\n CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Not to mention the rotation of teams scheduled to play at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington and all of their jet-setting die-hard fans. That includes the Netherlands and Japan, England and Croatia on June 17, Argentina and Austria on June 22, Japan and the European playoff-winning team on June 25, and Jordan and Argentina again on June 27. And that\u2019s only before the knockout stage matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n Suffice to say, there\u2019s never been a better time to be single around here. We\u2019re about to be inundated with men, and some of them might even have nice accents, so you should probably learn how to say \u201cYour place or mine?\u201d in at least seven languages.\u00a0<\/p>\n Surely by now you\u2019ve already seen at least one international traveler while swiping on dating apps. But if you\u2019re craving an organic meet-cute with someone from across the pond, here are a couple of places we\u2019d frequent.\u00a0<\/p>\n Swooning for Sweden<\/p>\n Swooning for Sweden? Us too. The team, camping out in Frisco, has already made use of one of North Texas\u2019 only and certainly oldest Scandinavian gift shops, The Wooden Spoon (1617 K Ave., Plano), which went viral amid the Swedish candy craze of a few summers ago. And we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if a player or two stumble in on a random Tuesday for some more pickled herring. We\u2019re glad the Swedish team has found a piece of home in North Texas. If they\u2019re looking for other slices of home in Dallas, ours are available, and we always need an expert Swede to help us put a new IKEA cabinet together.<\/p>\n Czech yes<\/p>\n There aren\u2019t many parallels between Dallas and the Czechia. For instance, they have the architectural masterpiece that is the Prague Castle. We have banks and gas stations as far as the eye can see. One of their national pastimes is mushroom foraging in their expansive coniferous forests. We spend our idle time in bumper-to-bumper traffic envisioning the chain restaurant destination that awaits us. Our alphabet has the letters Q, W and X, and they have players with names with consonants in orders we\u2019ve never seen (like Mojm\u00edr Chytil). But if there\u2019s one thing Texans and the Czech can agree on, it\u2019s the perfection of a kolache<\/a>. So if you\u2019re looking for a sweet treat in all its forms, we\u2019d stop by FourCzechs Bakery (104 E Fate Main Place, Rockwall), or if you\u2019re down for a day trip, the two rival Czech gas stations in West, Texas, are a must-see.\u00a0<\/p>\n As an aside, we\u2019d like to thank whoever runs the Czech Men\u2019s National Team Instagram.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll take the tea and the crumpet<\/p>\n The British are coming, and thank goodness for it. We\u2019ll be honest, it\u2019s highly unlikely that you\u2019ll fall in love with a member of a national soccer team. But it is highly likely that you fall in love with a fan of a national soccer team, and there\u2019s no easier fanatic to spot than the prideful and highly populous English nationals. On June 17, you can find us at Harwood Arms (2823 McKinnon St.), already a good spot to meet a proper man when there\u2019s not a global soccer tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n We\u2019re happy to cry for Argentina<\/p>\n Argentina is one of the top-ranked teams this tournament, having won the last World Cup hosted in Qatar. The team is anchored by A-list soccer star Lionel Messi, who has announced this will be his final World Cup. The celebrity athlete\u2019s prominence has earned Argentina a large following worldwide \u2014 you don\u2019t even need to be a massive soccer fan to recognize the blue-and-white striped uniform. With a large Spanish-speaking population, we\u2019ve got Latin clubs in every major entertainment district. But if we had to pick one to find your Argentinian Mr. Right, or a close-enough Argentinian, we\u2019d go to Mas Chingon Cantina (312 W Davis St.), which has a line out the door almost every night regardless of which team was on the TV that night.<\/p>\n The world is your stage, and every bar is an altar<\/p>\n