{"id":4763,"date":"2026-06-14T17:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:02:01","slug":"scotland-fans-celebrated-historic-world-cup-win-in-the-most-american-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Fans Celebrated Historic World Cup Win In The Most American Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Scotland fans have a lot to celebrate early in this summer&#8217;s World Cup, and they&#8217;re doing it in a quintessentially American way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Saturday for the teams&#8217; World Cup opener, Scotland beat Haiti, 1-0, at Boston Stadium. Any tournament victory is worthy of celebration, but it&#8217;s especially notable for Scotland, which not only returned to the World Cup for the first time since 1998 but also earned its first win since 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>To put that in perspective, the last time Scotland won a World Cup match, the original &#8220;Home Alone&#8221; was the No. 1 movie that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>So yeah, the Tartan Army has been waiting for this moment. Fans in Boston have been having a blast, but after Saturday&#8217;s first-match win, their celebrations included renditions of two iconic songs: John Denver&#8217;s &#8220;Take Me Home, Country Roads&#8221; and Neil Diamond&#8217;s &#8220;Sweet Caroline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Gotta love a widespread sports moment where Scotland fans were rallying in Boston while belting out a beautiful ode to West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>As we noted in our analysis of Scotland&#8217;s win over Haiti on Saturday, Scotland has a two-point lead at the top of Group C with three total points so far. The team&#8217;s next match is against Morocco on Friday, June 19 in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Scotland fans have a lot to celebrate early in this summer&#8217;s World Cup, and they&#8217;re doing it in a quintessentially American way.\u00a0 Saturday for the teams&#8217; World Cup opener, Scotland beat Haiti, 1-0, at Boston Stadium. Any tournament victory is worthy of celebration, but it&#8217;s especially notable for Scotland, which not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}