‘We’re having a party!’: Inside a school bus with Scottish soccer fans headed to the World Cup
Faced with the high cost of transportation to the soccer tournament, Scotland's Tartan Army rented “every single yellow school bus” in the region to get to Foxborough to see their team play Haiti.
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2026 World Cup in Massachusetts
‘You have only one lifetime’: Soccer fans take over Boston as World Cup gets underway
State officials expect as many as two million soccer fans from across the world to descend on the region.
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