{"id":46413,"date":"2025-07-07T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46413\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:36:10","slug":"club-world-cup-could-have-permanent-impact-on-philadelphia-soccer-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46413\/","title":{"rendered":"Club World Cup could have permanent impact on Philadelphia soccer culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Lincoln Financial Field hosted eight Club World Cup games from June 16 to July 4 involving 10 teams from seven countries spanning three continents, and a \u201ctotal of 346,454 fans passed through the stadium\u2019s gates in that span, for an average of 43,307,\u201d according to Jonathan Tannenwald of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. Two games \u201cdrew more than 60,000.\u201d The smallest crowd, 25,797 for the stadium\u2019s opener between Brazil\u2019s Flamengo and Tunisia\u2019s Esp\u00e9rance, had a \u201cmore vibrant atmosphere than almost all 31 soccer games the Eagles\u2019 home had hosted in its previous 22 years.\u201d There were also \u201cjust as many memorable moments beyond the field.\u201d Flamengo\u2019s fans had an \u201cArt Museum pep rally, then a huge tailgate party before the Chelsea game a few days later.\u201d Esp\u00e9rance brought a \u201creported 3,000 fans from Tunisia to join fans who live here,\u201d and they made \u201cgreat scenes from Reading Terminal Market to the stadium stands.\u201d Morocco\u2019s Wydad also had two games in Philadelphia and \u201cbrought crowds from their country and across the North American diaspora.\u201d Many people who came to Philadelphia \u201craved about their time\u201d there, \u201cwhether in public remarks or chats over evening drinks.\u201d Players and team staffs \u201cloved the stadium\u2019s atmosphere and grass playing surface.\u201d The international media \u201csaid lots of great things too, in words and TV broadcasts and social media videos.\u201d The Club World Cup \u201cmight have forever changed how Philadelphia sees soccer, not just as a sport but as something cultural\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/soccer\/club-world-cup-philadelphia-fans-palmeiras-flamengo-real-madrid-20250706.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/soccer\/club-world-cup-philadelphia-fans-palmeiras-flamengo-real-madrid-20250706.html\">PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 7\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln Financial Field hosted eight Club World Cup games from June 16 to July 4 involving 10 teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,392,1448,2830,1311,221,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-46413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114812930404711789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413","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=46413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}