KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Kansas City was flooded with a waves of orange on Thursday for the highly anticipated Netherlands vs. Tunisia World Cup match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kansas City hosts thousands for Netherlands vs. Tunisia game, celebrating across cultures<\/p>\n
The entire day was filled with celebrations from the Oranje walk, fans filing into FIFA Fan Fest and watching Ecuador win against Germany.<\/p>\n
The KC Live area filled up with fans for the USA vs. Turkey game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turkey defeated the U.S. 3-2 in its final group stage match of the FIFA World Cup 26.<\/p>\n
The entertainment district was packed wall to wall on Thursday night, cheering on Team USA. Kansas City has been just as excited to welcome Argentina, Ecuador, Curacao, Algeria, Tunisa and the Netherlands for their group stage matches in the metro.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the last two weeks, Kansas City has turned green, yellow, blue and on Thursday, orange.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGo Dutchies, come on!\u201d Netherlands fan Roel VanHoogsteraten said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city has fully embraced what it means to be the soccer capital of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to put into words, honestly,\u201d TAPS on Main co-owner Grant Tower said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t something we\u2019ll ever see again in this city and we\u2019ll never see anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those who are visiting are getting to know Midwestern hospitality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are having a really beautiful time,\u201d VanHoogsteraten said. \u201c99.99% of people are good once you realize we are all really the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kansas City has celebrated across language barriers with the people from countries who have come to play and visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLook at the culture, the environment, it\u2019s beautiful,\u201d Ecuador fan Julian Mancero said. \u201cThis is something really special.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you head to Kansas City\u2019s downtown district on a match day, you\u2019ll find people dancing in circles, coming together and celebrating the beautiful game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the way it should be,\u201d Kansas City resident Stephanie Grgas said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s united and having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only downfall? We\u2019re almost at the halfway point for the World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to miss it when it\u2019s gone,\u201d Kansas City resident Joel Camper said. \u201cWe have 39 days of it and I\u2019ve enjoyed every day so far. I don\u2019t want it to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kansas City will host its next match on Saturday when Algeria and Austria will meet on the pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Kansas City was flooded with a waves of orange on Thursday for the highly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[629,628,14362,18147,12041,5670,18146,6,3268,9973],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-algeria","tag-celebrations","tag-kansas-city-soccer","tag-kansas-city-world-cup","tag-kc-live","tag-netherlands","tag-turkey","tag-world-cup-host-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","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=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}