FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Japanese and Swedish fans have poured into North Texas ahead of their teams\u2019 matchup against one another at Dallas Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
But before the match, many international fans visiting Texas for the FIFA World Cup have been enjoying all that the Lone Star State has to offer. Many fans have taken to social media to post their experiences with Texas barbecue, the heat and cowboy culture.<\/p>\n
Two fans straight from Japan \u2014 Takeshi Harada and Chiho Mitsuyuki \u2014 have been enjoying the Lone Star State over the past two weeks. It is their first time in Texas.<\/p>\n
They wanted to speak Japanese for this interview, but their English and their views about Texans were already spot on.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are very kind, people helped us, so we are very happy and so hospitality very good,\u201d said Mitsuyuki.<\/p>\n
That good old Southern hospitality is what Seiya Harada is also experiencing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTexas is good,\u201d said Harada.<\/p>\n
He just flew in from Japan this week, and his Airbnb host, Yuko Smith, translated for me and gave him the full Texas treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sweating hot in Texas,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n
Even though she has called Frisco home for the past eight years, the heat never gets easier.<\/p>\n
It was a no-brainer for her on which parts of the state she would showcase on her Texas tour for her guests.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, the whole plan was come here and also take him to the Cowboys and also the Hutchins barbecue,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n
Smith captured the life-changing moment when brisket meets man and how just about everything is deep-fried and laid to the side.<\/p>\n
They also met their Swedish opponents for Thursday\u2019s match, and it was all love as these new international visitors got a taste of Texas.<\/p>\n
Once all the festive World Cup decor is taken down and they\u2019re back in their home country, they\u2019ll know they left their mark on this state and on each other.<\/p>\n
Smith, Harada and Mitsuyuki all started off as strangers this week, but the World Cup in Texas brought them together.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Japanese and Swedish fans have poured into North Texas ahead of their teams\u2019 matchup against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,8455,102,8082,138,223,82,27,26986,1569,835,3692,29003],"class_list":["post-350019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-blessing-iwuchukwu","tag-dallas","tag-dfw-what-you-need-to-know","tag-el-paso","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-editors-picks","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}