{"id":12786,"date":"2025-06-25T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12786\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:19:12","slug":"fans-of-chelsea-esperance-brave-heat-in-philadelphia-for-fifa-club-world-cup-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12786\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans of Chelsea, Esp\u00e9rance brave heat in Philadelphia for FIFA Club World Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-philadelphia-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the sweltering summer sun, FIFA fans set up shop to tailgate ahead of Tuesday night&#8217;s match between Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis from Tunisia and Chelsea from England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is some lamb sausage, we got some chicken, we got some watermelon,&#8221; said Jay Hhjjar, who drove up from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>George McShea from Collegeville and his family, who gathered to cheer on Chelsea, had a similar strategy. McShea said being an Eagles fan, he&#8217;s used to extreme conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the boys and I were down here a couple of years ago at Christmas, and it was I think like 5 degrees out, it was so cold. So this is the opposite end of the spectrum right now,&#8221; McShea said.<\/p>\n<p>Fans said the heat is all part of the Club World Cup. This is still the first stage of games. There&#8217;s a Round of 16 match on Saturday, and the quarterfinals showdown is set for July 4.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea fan Seth Ayers came in from Massachusetts for the match, making the most of the heat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hotter in Massachusetts right now, it&#8217;s like 106 real-feel, maybe 100 \u2026 The whole East Coast is burning up,&#8221; Ayers said.<\/p>\n<p>And Esp\u00e9rance fans including Rami Matador agree: There&#8217;s nothing that would keep them from being here to support their team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do everything for Esperance even if 60 degrees, even if Planet Mars, we will go, always behind our team,&#8221; Matador said.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/search\/author\/alicia-roberts\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia  Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Emmy-award winning Reporter and Anchor Alicia Roberts joined the CBS News Philadelphia team in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live Under the sweltering summer sun, FIFA fans set up shop to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,461,1448,2830,1311,221,13125,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-12786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-tunisia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114742556487292695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}