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PHOENIX<\/strong> – The World Cup is benefitting many bars and restaurants showing it around town.\u00a0<\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n In Mesa, Turkey is training for the tournament and staying at a hotel. At Crown Public House in Downtown Phoenix, there was a packed house during the games on June 13.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re a Liverpool bar, so we\u2019re the home to soccer anyway. A lot of people are coming here because of that,” owner Don Phillippi said.<\/p>\n Phillippi says the baseball season usually helps them boost their sales, but now the World Cup is helping even more.<\/p>\n “For most businesses, restaurants and bars, this is huge!” Phillippi said. “From the middle of June to the middle of July it\u2019s really helpful.”<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n Fans from Brazil are excited to see their home team play.<\/p>\n “Brazil\u2019s in my blood,” Brazil fan Izzy Gaulia said. “It\u2019s always going to be in my blood, and they know that, so they came and supported.”<\/p>\n The other side:<\/p>\n Brazil tied with Morocco, as fans from Morocco were at the bar.<\/p>\n “If I find a good atmosphere with good soccer vibes, even if it\u2019s in the street, I would watch,” Morocco fan Abib Filali said.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Extra fans are helping out Crown Public House’s sales.<\/p>\n “What countries you show and stuff like that definitely has an impact on it, but I would say as an overall average 30%,” Phillippi said.<\/p>\n Why you should care:<\/p>\n At the end of the day, no matter who wins, it’s a game that unites people.<\/p>\n “You\u2019re gathering the whole world to watch these games and everybody just comes together,” Brazil fan Melissa Crespo said. “It\u2019s just a whole different type of energy.”<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this report was gathered from Crown Public House owner Don Phillippi, Brazil fans and Morocco fans.<\/p>\n FIFA World Cup<\/a>Downtown Phoenix<\/a>Mesa<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – The World Cup is benefitting many bars and restaurants showing it around town.\u00a0 Local perspective: In…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":866154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,48588,1588,26789,50,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,21490],"class_list":["post-866153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-downtown-phx","tag-maricopa-county","tag-mesa","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116747086087883466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866153","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=866153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}