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Bara Sow\u2019s first time at the World Cup was in 2018, in Russia. He spent ten days watching his beloved Senegal fall short of advancing past the tournament\u2019s group stage. He went again in 2022, watching games in Qatar for three weeks until Senegal was eliminated in the round of sixteen. He described his love for the World Cup with reverence. \u201cThe passion, the people, everything,\u201d Sow, a thirty-nine-year-old civil servant from Dakar, told me. \u201cThis sport unites people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After Senegal qualified for this year\u2019s World Cup, Sow planned to attend. Led by the dazzling winger Sadio Man\u00e9 and the steely goalkeeper \u00c9douard Mendy, Les Lions de la Teranga had won the 2022 African Nations Championship and finished as runner-up to Morocco earlier this year in the bigger Africa Cup of Nations, when a controversial ruling overturned Senegal\u2019s initial victory after the team briefly walked off in a protest late in the final. Just eight countries have won the World Cup, and none outside South America or Europe has ever reached the final, but some are getting close. Cameroon became the first African team to reach the quarterfinals in 1990, and Senegal beat France, the defending champion, en route to the quarterfinals in 2002, the same year South Korea became the first Asian team to reach the semifinals. During the last World Cup, Morocco became the first African team to make it that far. For Sow and other fans from Senegal, everything seemed to be aligning for an exciting 2026 World Cup. There was just one problem: the event\u2019s primary host, the United States, has banned tourists from Senegal. Sow applied for a tourist visa, paying a hundred-and-eighty-five-dollar nonrefundable processing fee, and was rejected within a month, he said. \u201cQatar was very easy, Russia also not very difficult,\u201d he said. \u201cU.S.A. is very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the first time a World Cup host has blocked visitors from participating countries en masse. Iran, Haiti, and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire are also on tourist travel bans. Though Canada and Mexico are co-hosting, seventy-eight of a hundred and four matches take place on American soil. Every team was guaranteed at least three World Cup matches in the group-stage round-robin that determined who advanced to the knockout rounds. FIFA<\/em> booked every Iran and Haiti group-stage match in the U.S. In comparison, Senegal was lucky. Only its first two group-stage games were in the U.S. Its third was just over the border, in Toronto. Sow booked a ticket, a flight, and a hotel for a trip to the most expensive World Cup in history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the months leading up to the World Cup, the Trump Administration has supplied plenty of reasons for fans to worry about visiting the U.S. The President has fully or partially barred tourists from nearly forty countries, disproportionately targeting visitors from Africa, Asia, and South America. Customs officers have searched through travellers\u2019 phones and denied entry based on political expression (U.S. officials have denied that these searches are politically motivated). ICE<\/em> agents have detained people seemingly at will, and sometimes killed them. The war with Iran has driven up the costs of nearly everything\u2014and, on top of that, FIFA<\/em>\u2019s \u201cdynamic pricing\u201d model has made tickets more expensive than at any previous World Cup. It was only natural to wonder: Who would actually sign up for this?<\/p>\n

Millions of people, it turned out. Over the tournament\u2019s first three weeks, I spoke with more than a hundred fans from more than a dozen countries, at matches in five cities across all three host nations: law clerks from Brazil, software developers from Ecuador, business executives from Ghana, engineers from Norway\u2014soccer lovers with the means to buy into an experience that many described to me as \u201conce in a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some fans planned their trip around a single game. Marwan Bardoukh, a twenty-three-year-old delivery driver from the Netherlands with Moroccan immigrant parents, paid a thousand dollars for a ticket to see Morocco take on Brazil in New Jersey, travelling with three childhood friends to New York City. \u201cIt\u2019s just like the movies,\u201d his friend Anwar Oubari told me, as we rode a New Jersey Transit train to the stadium. The Morocco match happened to fall just a few hours before Game 5 of the N.B.A. Finals, and the moment the final whistle sounded at the New Jersey stadium, sealing a 1\u20131 draw, the group rushed to make it back to Manhattan in time to catch the Knicks clinching the championship, and the citywide eruption that followed. Three days later, they flew home, with memories of the city that another friend, Ibrahim Quorsane, said \u201cexceeded my expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other fans intend to stay as long as their team remains in the tournament. Olav Odegaard, a twenty-seven-year-old engineer from Norway, said that he told his boss, a fellow soccer fan, \u201cI\u2019m going to the World Cup. What are you gonna do?\u201d He arrived in New York for Norway\u2019s second group-stage game with just three nights booked at his hotel, ready to make a beeline for Boston for the third game, then head wherever the team landed in the next round. Gideon Obeng, a thirty-three-year-old Ghana fan who works remotely in sales, said he had \u201cput everything in place to be here as long as I can.\u201d He booked a three-week trip to Toronto, Boston, and Philadelphia for Ghana\u2019s group-stage games, and, when the Black Stars stunned England in a 0\u20130 draw, securing a spot in the knockout stage, he extended his trip for another week, with hopes of staying even longer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Others I spoke with, despite being high earners in their home countries, struggled to afford the trip. C\u00e9dric Higel, a thirty-two-year-old data scientist from France, said that he\u2019d been saving up for three years, expecting tickets to cost maybe five hundred dollars, not the thirteen hundred that he ultimately paid to see his team\u2019s first game. The luckiest travellers have relatives who live in the cities hosting their team\u2019s matches. The tri-state area has the highest concentration of Ecuadorians in the United States, and Edwin Hernandez, a twenty-seven-year-old software developer from Quito, stayed with relatives in Connecticut, commuting to Ecuador\u2019s matches in Philadelphia and New Jersey. He opted to take a bus to those cities instead of a train, used public transit, and frequented fast-food restaurants. \u201cKeep this as cheap as possible,\u201d he told me, explaining that he was the first in his family with enough money to afford the luxury of attending an international event like the World Cup. \u201cI don\u2019t have any other responsibilities. No kids,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cThis is the right time to spend money on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hernandez travelled alone, but the moment he arrived in Philadelphia for Ecuador\u2019s opening match, he saw yellow jerseys everywhere, filling bars, lining up for restaurants, taking selfies beside the Rocky Balboa statue. One fan draped Rocky in an Ecuador jersey. After the game, a disappointing loss to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, some Ecuador fans asked their Ivorian counterparts to swap jerseys, mimicking a post-match tradition among players. But, because of the U.S. visa ban, Ecuador fans far outnumbered those from the opposing side. Outside the stadium after the match, as a parade of yellow streamed out to the parking lots, a group of teen-agers hoping to trade their Ecuador jerseys waited near the gates, scanning for orange.<\/p>\n

The visa issue loomed over the tournament\u2019s early weeks. A FIFA<\/em> referee from Somalia was denied entry at the Miami airport; in a statement, the U.S. government cited \u201cassociation with suspected members of terror organizations.\u201d Iran\u2019s team, whose base camp was in Tijuana, had to fly into Los Angeles the day before matches and out again right afterward, because the U.S. had limited their visa eligibility; eleven staff members were denied visas entirely. Michel Kuka Mboladinga, a Congolese fan famous for dressing as Patrice Lumumba and posing, motionless, like Lumumba\u2019s Kinshasa statue throughout D.R. Congo\u2019s matches, was given a visa to travel to Mexico for one of his team\u2019s games after meeting the country\u2019s quarantine requirements amid the Ebola outbreaks in his homeland, but was denied a U.S. visa for the next match. After holding mighty Spain scoreless in Atlanta, Josimar Jos\u00e9 \u00c9vora Dias, better known as Vozinha, Cabo Verde\u2019s forty-year-old goalkeeper, revealed that his mother couldn\u2019t attend because of \u201cthe money we had to pay\u201d for a visa; Cabo Verde is one of five African countries in the World Cup whose citizens must submit a bond of as much as fifteen thousand dollars in order to receive a visa, and though the U.S. waived it for ticket-holding fans a month before the tournament, that was too late for those who had decided not to apply because of the cost. After Vozinha drew attention to his mother\u2019s plight, U.S. officials intervened to ensure she made it to the next matches.<\/p>\n

But other anxieties Americans held about this World Cup haven\u2019t come to fruition. Public transportation has mostly been smooth. Spectators have, according to FIFA<\/em>, filled the stands at every match. Immigration agents haven\u2019t stormed into host cities. Paola Mendoza, an organizer for No ICE<\/em> in the Cup, an advocacy group that campaigned against the presence of immigration agents at the event, had worried that the World Cup would be marred by fear and violence. Instead, she told me, \u201cwhat we\u2019ve seen since is that the people haven\u2019t allowed that to happen. We\u2019re seeing moments of kindness, community relief, safety and joy and connection, and that\u2019s what this world desperately needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cultural exchanges have gone viral: Brazilian children dancing to Scottish bagpipes, Mexico fans serenading a young Japanese birthday girl with \u201cLas Ma\u00f1anitas,\u201d a D.R. Congo fan singing his country\u2019s national anthem while surrounded by Colombia fans who cheered him on. Outside stadiums before games, fans from competing nations often pose for photos together, holding up their respective flags.<\/p>\n

That made Siahou Soumahoro, a fifty-year-old Ivorian immigrant living in Philadelphia, a hot commodity when she arrived at the stadium for the match between C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Ecuador. Amid the growing mass of yellow shirts outside the entrance gates, she was the first in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire colors to arrive. Within minutes, a line of Ecuador fans formed around her to request a picture. Other C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire fans found the same as they trickled in. Youssouf Bam, fifty, the vice-consul at the Ivorian Embassy in Dublin, quickly drew a crowd, exchanging playful trash talk as he shook hands and smiled for cameras, loudly predicting that his team would come out on top. When a pack of Ecuador fans gathered to cheer in front of a television camera, Bam slipped into the crowd, waving his flag and chanting for his team. He told me that he feels a duty to make up for all the Ivorians who aren\u2019t able to get to the U.S. \u201cWe have to chant twice as loud,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m shouting.\u201d Bam said that five thousand people from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire had applied for U.S. tourist visas, and all had been rejected. \u201cBut what can we do?\u201d he said. \u201cWe make as much noise as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At three matches in the U.S. that featured either C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire or Senegal, I spoke with dozens of those teams\u2019 fans, and couldn\u2019t find a single person visiting from those countries. Instead, I spoke with first- and second-generation immigrants who had travelled in from across the United States. Mamoune Mbaye, a thirty-year-old UPS driver who grew up in Senegal and now lives in Atlanta, said he flew up to New Jersey for two separate day trips to avoid missing work. A group of college students, who had emigrated from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire as children, drove to Philadelphia from the Bronx neighborhood where they grew up. A pair of twenty-three-year-old women from Senegal, who now live in Boston, took a 2 A.M.<\/em> train to arrive in Manhattan in time to catch the New Jersey Transit express to the stadium.<\/p>\n

I also attended that game, with Senegal taking on a star-studded French side. The team\u2019s supporters filled a few compact sections, islands of green drowned out in a sea of blue Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 jerseys. It was a stark contrast from Senegal\u2019s showing four years ago in Qatar, when the team\u2019s supporter group, Le 12\u00e8me Ga\u00efnd\u00e9, marched into the stadiums with painted chests, a drumline, and non-stop singing and dancing.<\/p>\n

Though a pair of goals by Mbapp\u00e9 ultimately sealed France\u2019s victory, Mohamed Ndaw, a thirty-three-year-old from Jersey City whose father had emigrated from Senegal, told me that the game was still \u201cone of the best experiences I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d He described the small but fervent supporter section as a welcoming community. \u201cEverybody was starting up a conversation with you. I was hugging strangers during the game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ndaw had paid six hundred dollars for the ticket, and didn\u2019t regret it. But he decided against attending the next match, against Norway, preferring not to be surrounded by people cheering his team\u2019s misfortunes. \u201cSince there weren\u2019t many Senegalese at the game,\u201d he told me, he wanted to watch it with others who shared his allegiance. And there were plenty of options for Ndaw to connect with Senegal\u2019s New York diaspora. Block parties shut down streets in Harlem. At a pre-match face-off in Times Square, hundreds of Senegal and Norway fans, including Odegaard, danced to one another\u2019s music; \u201cboth Norwegian and Senegalese people, we love to party,\u201d Odegaard said. Ndaw eventually opted to attend a \u201cfan zone\u201d in Newark with big outdoor screens, certain he\u2019d find more Senegal green than Norway red.<\/p>\n

Every sports fan faces the same question: How much are you willing to pay for a priceless experience, when there\u2019s a chance you will face heartbreak instead of bliss? After Ecuador\u2019s disappointing draw against Cura\u00e7ao, against which it had been heavily favored, Hernandez re\u00ebvaluated his plans. Ecuador played Germany next, and it needed to beat the four-time World Cup champions to have any chance of advancing to the knockout stage. He had paid a thousand and thirty-five dollars for a ticket to the game. In the gloomy late-night hours after the Cura\u00e7ao draw, Hernandez \u201cacted on impulse,\u201d as he described it, and put his Germany ticket up for sale. When he woke up \u201cwith a clear head,\u201d he said, he rushed to cancel the listing, but it was too late. Someone had already snagged the seat, for fifteen hundred dollars. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m regretting it,\u201d he texted me, the morning of the match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Filled with seller\u2019s remorse, Hernandez searched for a ticket to the game, but he couldn\u2019t find anything on the resale market for the initial price that he\u2019d paid. Then he spotted a Facebook post offering a ticket for seven hundred dollars. He paid half up front as a deposit, but the seller didn\u2019t transfer the ticket and, later, blocked him on social media. \u201cNow that I lost that money, I\u2019m trying to get a ticket a little bit cheaper,\u201d he told me the morning of the match.<\/p>\n

That evening, as the game began, I hadn\u2019t heard from Hernandez. When Germany scored two minutes in, Ecuador\u2019s hopes seemed lost. At this point, the team hadn\u2019t scored a single goal all tournament. But La Tri equalized seven minutes later, and then, in the seventy-seventh minute, Gonzalo Plata delivered salvation with a score that Ecuador fans will talk about forever. It was a magical scene in the stands\u2014group hugs, tears of joy, faces to the heavens, utter rapture. My heart sank at the possibility that Hernandez had missed the party.<\/p>\n

Minutes after the game, Hernandez texted: a photo of him in the stands, holding up a banner bearing the face of his favorite player, Enner Valencia. \u201cSo despite everything, I lived it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe money is something you can recover, but the experience is unforgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same might be said by the fans who saw Congo stymie Portugal, Cabo Verde deadlock with Spain, or Haiti blast in two goals against Morocco. Any concerns that expanding the tournament to forty-eight teams would bring lopsided outcomes evaporated as underdog nations defied betting odds again and again. Of the thirty-two teams that qualified for the knockout stage, nine are from Africa, more than the number of teams from Asia and South America combined, and just four fewer than Europe.<\/p>\n

As the World Cup\u2019s group stage reached its crescendo, Sow arrived in Toronto, eager to join the festivities. On the afternoon of Senegal\u2019s final group-stage match, against Iraq, he joined other Senegal fans at a park, for a march to the stadium. Sow felt nervous. Les Lions had underperformed in the group stage, teetering on the verge of elimination. To reach the knockout round, the team needed to win by a wide enough margin to exceed the goal difference of other teams competing for the few remaining spots. At the park, Sow paced with his hands behind his back. Anticipating that he wouldn\u2019t have the stomach to eat during the match, he swung by a pizza joint for a slice and a milkshake. But, once the singing started, he seemed to loosen up, walking at the front of the pack and raising his phone to capture the moment. A crowd of Iraq fans, staging their own rally, greeted them outside the stadium. The sides went back and forth, trading songs in their native tongues, and friendly taunts in English.<\/p>\n

The match was everything Senegal fans could have wished for: an early score, an Iraq player disqualified, and then a second-half explosion of spectacular goals to secure a 5\u20130 victory and passage to the knockout stage. A showdown with Belgium awaited. But Sow had a flight back to Dakar before then. Senegal\u2019s next match, and any that followed, would be in the U.S.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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