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The FIFA World Cup is over, in Boston anyway. Thursday’s 2-0 victory for France was the last of seven games to be held in Foxborough.
And while there had been plenty of trepidation among locals before the tournament began — would traffic bring the area to a standstill? would fans become unruly — we found plenty of people who are sad to see the World Cup wrap up.
“It brings so much culture,” said Alfia Rakova. “People are enjoying it and we like it.
She and her husband wish the World Cup was sticking around, even though they’ve had to adjust their schedules a bit to accommodate the games, for things like getting groceries.
“We work around their schedule and then we have our drinks, food and watch the game. We enjoy. We are going to miss it,” she said.
For Jennifer Fredericksen, the energy has been great, even if she’s excited to get Gillette Stadium back.
“Their energy was just so positive and happy. At 6 a.m., 7 a.m., just going hardcore,” she said.
Public safety and the World Cup in Boston
People working to keep the public safe since June also called the tournament a win.
“It has been a good experience all around,” said Walpole Police Chief Richard Kelleher, whose department handled a lot of the traffic coming through the southside of town in partnership with other agencies.
Kelleher said that traffic wasn’t as bad as they’d feared, and that folks were nice to his officers, who made no World Cup-related arrests.
Still, there have been many long days, and he conceded he was ready for the tournament to be over.
“For our town, it was a big lift because we were planning for so long for this. But I’m glad we did,” Kelleher said.
Mayor Wu looks back on the Tartan Army and more
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu took some time to reflect on the tournament during an appearance Thursday on the popular soccer show “Men in Blazers” ahead of the game,
“This World Cup has been amazing and Boston has been very proud to be America’s best ambassador during it,” Wu said.
Asked about NBC10 Boston’s viral news clip about Scotland’s Tartan Army drinking some taps dry at local bars, she joked, “I almost signed a state of emergency declaration,” and insisted the city is stocked and ready for next time — Glasgow’s mayor could come over in April to finalize a new sister city arrangement.
Red Sox legend Pedro Martinez appeared on the same show and shared his love for Leo Messi and soccer in general. Asked about the Tartan Army, he said, “I thought it was one of the most unique ways to support a team. I had so much respect for what they did, for how they brought their culture here to Boston and how America also embraced that.”
Wu also talked seriously about how the diversity of the fans coming to Boston to cheer their teams reflects the city’s every-day diversity and love of sports.
“When we see other sports fans show up with as much pride as we have in our teams, we recognize our own kind of crazy, and we embrace that,” Wu said.
Her kids are obsessed with soccer, she said, so much so that even her youngest dropped a baseball at Fenway Park and immediately started kicking it like a soccer ball.
“To see through our kids’ eyes, especially, what this experience has meant, that’s why it’s been so important for us in Boston to make sure that all the watch parties, Fan Fest, everything was absolutely free, so that there would be no barriers and we could make sure that our community could also got to create those memories that will last a lifetime,” Wu said.
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