reddit455 t1_j08v7kc wrote
Reply to comment by T3canolis in TIL That 1994 FIFA World Cup in USA still holds the record for the one with highest attendance by marecko
largest was 94k.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup#Venues
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it's not a long trip for South Americans. the Brazilians played at Stanford... it was nuts.. fans wore their colors 24/7.
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Carnival for about a month.
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It was 20 years ago today when Brazil took over downtown Los Gatos during the 1994 World Cup
“The Fourth of July is when Brazil played the U.S., so we knew it would be a big day in Los Gatos,” Attaway said. “We knew we didn’t have enough police to handle the anticipated crowds, so the police chief called in mutual assistance in advance. There were officers on every street entering Santa Cruz Avenue.”
“They were a calming influence,” Attaway’s wife, Sara LaBerge, said. “There was so much traffic that people were parking on the edge of south 17 and walking into town to party.”
All of this served to put Los Gatos on the world map. “I was interviewed by the New York Times,” Attaway said.
LaBerge added, “Every publication in Brazil mentioned Los Gatos.”
They have a carton filled with old newspaper clippings proving that point.
The Los Gatos Weekly-Times, for instance, reported that 3,000 people were rocking downtown after Brazil defeated Russia on June 20, and a June 25 photo shows people dancing on N. Santa Cruz at 1 a.m.
JpnDude t1_j0a7crc wrote
I was there at Stanford for the Brazil-Cameroon match. My boss had given me tickets just a few days before. It was an amazing experience. Most seemed to be Brazil fans and no one ever sat down during the match.
e30Devil t1_j0d52qd wrote
If you've never visited Los Gatos, imagining that many people in a town that looks like your everyday middle america main street town, is just mind blowing.
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