What to know<\/p>\n
The first FIFA match is less than a week away, and excitement is building across Toronto.<\/p>\n
Fans are planning everything from attending games to hitting up bars to hosting home-viewing parties.<\/p>\n
Major fan zones and official FIFA activations are expected to draw big crowds.<\/p>\n
Even tourists are soaking in the city\u2019s World Cup buzz, eager to join the festivities wherever they are.<\/p>\n
The first FIFA match is in less than a week; here\u2019s what Torontonians are planning to do on game day.<\/p>\n
With numerous activations, fan fest and watch parties, soccer fans are hyped for FIFA.<\/p>\n
From watch parties to staying home and putting the game on TV, here\u2019s what soccer fans are doing during the first match.<\/p>\n
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What are soccer fans doing at the first FIFA game?<\/p>\n
Toronto resident Jose O. is one of the lucky soccer fans who managed to get FIFA tickets.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be here in the city. I will be going to a game,\u201d he beamingly told Now Toronto, adding that he\u2019s attending the Croatia-Panama match to be exact.<\/p>\n
For the rest of the games, he\u2019ll be going to pubs or watching from home with family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be interesting. It\u2019s always interesting. It\u2019s going to be exciting, and well, I like football,\u201d Jose said.<\/p>\n
Toronto resident Anu L. isn\u2019t able to attend a game, but will be keeping in touch with the matches by going to bars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI work around the exhibition area, there\u2019s a lot of bars and stuff, so I\u2019m just planning to watch them anywhere around where I really can,\u201d he told Now Toronto.<\/p>\n
Specifically, he\u2019s hoping to go to Fox and John\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anu\u2019s hoping Ronaldo wins the World Cup, and is looking forward to the FIFA atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cToronto\u2019s going to be packed, and the World Cup\u2019s in Canada. So, it can\u2019t go wrong,\u201d Anu said.<\/p>\n
Tourist Carlin P. from Atlanta is super hyped to be in the city right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fun to see all the FIFA stuff around, and we\u2019ve never been to Toronto before, so it\u2019s just been a fun experience for us all around,\u201d she told Now Toronto.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, she\u2019s returning to Atlanta before the World Cup begins and will watch the game from home and at bars with friends and family.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re from the U.S., so we\u2019re watching them play, but I honestly love watching all the teams play. I played soccer growing up, so I love FIFA,\u201d Carlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know The first FIFA match is less than a week away, and excitement is building across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1314,7926,30495,13643,48,30496,3543],"class_list":["post-76636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-fan-fest","tag-fox-and-john","tag-liberty-village","tag-toronto","tag-watch-parties","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}