{"id":461391,"date":"2026-10-09T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461391\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:46:07","slug":"remember-freddy-the-viral-world-cup-fan-is-dallas-bound-for-texas-ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461391\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Freddy? The viral World Cup fan is Dallas-bound for Texas-OU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viral World Cup fan Freddy is coming to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The German soccer fan and social media personality known as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FreddyLA7?lang=en\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">@FreddyLA7<\/a> on X will be in town for the Red River Rivalry game between No. 1 Texas and Oklahoma Saturday at the Cotton Bowl. The stop is part of a fall trip through various college football venues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/article\/freddy-world-cup-viral-fan-state-fair-texas-22367515.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy announced<\/a> in the summer after the end of his World Cup trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trip began in September, and Freddy has brought his followers along for every step of the way. So far, the trip has included stops in Iowa City for a rivalry game between Iowa and Iowa State at Kinnick Stadium, Jordan-Hare Stadium for Auburn-Florida and Tiger Stadium for LSU-Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>After the game in Baton\u00a0Rouge, Freddy and company headed to Cullman, Ala., for an Oktoberfest celebration before driving back through Arkansas to reach Texas on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy rose to prominence over the summer during a road trip through the American South, where his online reactions to a pre-World Cup friendly match at Auburn&#8217;s Jordan-Hare Stadium and American chains like Buc-ee&#8217;s and Taco Bell drew media coverage during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The social media personality had originally named the State Fair of Texas as one of the &#8220;unique American events&#8221; he wanted to check out on his return to the United States. With Texas-OU, he&#8217;ll get the full State Fair experience on one of its busiest days. Hopefully, the line for a corny dog isn&#8217;t too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viral World Cup fan Freddy is coming to Dallas. The German soccer fan and social media personality known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-461391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461391","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=461391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}