JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 World Cup fever is everywhere right now! <\/p>\n
Hundreds of people packed The Block on Jacksonville\u2019s Southside to cheer on Team USA Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n
The Block, Culhane\u2019s Irish Pub, and other local eateries were all packed with fans hours before kickoff. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cLast time we got here right when the game was about to start and we didn\u2019t make it in, so we made sure we got here extra early today,\u201d said one Jacksonville couple at The Block. <\/p>\n No matter the outcome of Friday\u2019s game on Lumen Field, something special is happening on our own turf. <\/p>\n \u201cJax is doing all kinds of things. They\u2019re opening up all kinds of spaces, so we had to watch the World Cup,\u201d said another fan at The Block. <\/p>\n FIFA estimates more than one billion people worldwide watched the opening match. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty exciting to see people cheer for their cultures, their team,\u201d said Char the Mixologist at Alien Taco. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n A win for Team USA is also a win for the U.S. and local economies. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re like a community, local bar and we\u2019ve really embraced the community and bring them in. They\u2019re coming in right now. It\u2019s going to be packed here. It\u2019s going to be awesome. I\u2019m excited,\u201d said Brian Russel at Culhane\u2019s Irish Pub on Atlantic Beach. <\/p>\n FIFA\u2019s Economic Impact Study predicts the World Cup will bring a $30 billion bump to the U.S. economy. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re playing really well. We\u2019ve got the whole country behind us. Look at all these fans here,\u201d said Andy, a Team USA fan at the Block. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 World Cup fever is everywhere right now! Hundreds of people packed The Block on Jacksonville\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":880770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[357829,5229,9331,128676,4740,357830,226460,357826,357825,357827,2034,3188,723,11561,357824,7310,226459,425,357828,8717,225058,357823,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,248031],"class_list":["post-880769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alien_taco","tag-america","tag-americans","tag-atlantic_beach","tag-australia","tag-bliss_seman","tag-block_jacks","tag-brian_russell","tag-cole_hanes_irish_pub","tag-colhane","tag-fifa","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jack","tag-jack_beekman","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonvilles","tag-local","tag-shar","tag-side","tag-super_bowl","tag-team_usa","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\/116783158804156845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880769","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=880769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}