Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnother World Cup contender is about to touch down in the Kansas City area.Watch live as the Netherlands arrives Tuesday ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, becoming the latest international powerhouse to call the metro home.The Dutch will use the Kansas City Current training facility in Riverside, Missouri, as their World Cup base camp while preparing for a long-awaited run at the sport’s biggest prize.For soccer fans, the Netherlands occupies a unique place in World Cup history. The Dutch have reached three World Cup finals, helped revolutionize the sport with their famous “Total Football” style, and produced some of the game’s greatest players.Despite all that success, they have never won a World Cup.The Netherlands finished runner-up in 1974, 1978 and 2010, earning a reputation as perhaps the best national team never to lift the trophy.Kansas City may also notice a lot more orange around town over the next few weeks.The Netherlands is known worldwide for its sea of orange-clad supporters, known as the “Orange Army.” The color honors the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, and has become a symbol of national pride. The Dutch arrive as one of the tournament’s dark-horse contenders. The roster is led by defender Virgil van Dijk, midfielder Frenkie de Jong and goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tRIVERSIDE, Mo. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Another World Cup contender is about to touch down in the Kansas City area.<\/p>\n
Watch live as the Netherlands arrives Tuesday ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, becoming the latest international powerhouse to call the metro home.<\/p>\n
The Dutch will use the Kansas City Current training facility in Riverside, Missouri, as their World Cup base camp while preparing for a long-awaited run at the sport’s biggest prize.<\/p>\n
For soccer fans, the Netherlands occupies a unique place in World Cup history. The Dutch have reached three World Cup finals, helped revolutionize the sport with their famous “Total Football” style, and produced some of the game’s greatest players.<\/p>\n
Despite all that success, they have never won a World Cup.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands finished runner-up in 1974, 1978 and 2010, earning a reputation as perhaps the best national team never to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n
Kansas City may also notice a lot more orange around town over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
The Netherlands is known worldwide for its sea of orange-clad supporters, known as the “Orange Army.” The color honors the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, and has become a symbol of national pride. <\/p>\n
The Dutch arrive as one of the tournament’s dark-horse contenders. The roster is led by defender Virgil van Dijk, midfielder Frenkie de Jong and goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orange Army is coming: Watch live as the Netherlands arrive in Kansas City for the World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4991,15560,15565,1793,15567,15550,816,13242,13525,4983,5618,14665,247,10826,15551,4898,15556,13243,15569,4714,6,15557,15552,15562,13492,14650,15555,5671,15554,15563,15558,4895,13469,15553,4894,4577,14652,364,15568,248,13484,14163,15566,15549,13473,15559,631,15564,15561],"class_list":["post-20525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-arrival","tag-bart-verbruggen-netherlands","tag-big-prize","tag-current","tag-dark-horse-contender","tag-dejong","tag-dutch","tag-dutch-national-team","tag-dutch-supporters-march","tag-fans","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup-kansas-city","tag-football","tag-frenkie-de-jong-netherlands","tag-futbol","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-current-facility","tag-kc-current","tag-midfielder-frenkie-de-jong","tag-missouri","tag-netherlands","tag-netherlands-arrival-live-stream","tag-netherlands-arrives-kansas-city","tag-netherlands-fans-kansas-city","tag-netherlands-kansas-city","tag-netherlands-soccer-team","tag-netherlands-training-riverside","tag-netherlands-world-cup","tag-netherlands-world-cup-2026","tag-netherlands-world-cup-contender","tag-netherlands-world-cup-history","tag-orange","tag-orange-army","tag-orange-army-kansas-city","tag-oranje","tag-riverside","tag-riverside-missouri-world-cup","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-fan","tag-sport","tag-total-football","tag-tournament","tag-unique-place","tag-vandijk","tag-verbruggen","tag-virgil-van-dijk-netherlands","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-contender-netherlands","tag-world-cup-kansas-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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