🚌 A blue school bus, without windows, with the music blasting. That’s how the Curaçao national team arrived at the Stadium on June 6, 2026 to play its final friendly before the World Cup.
The players had their arms sticking out through the openings where the windows should have been, singing and dancing as if the bus were the party and the stadium merely the place where it would continue.
On the windshield, a phrase in Papiamento said it all: “Sorry, mi a jega” — “Sorry, but I’ve already arrived”. That night they beat Aruba 4-0.
The school bus tradition dates back to 2015, when Patrick Kluivert was coaching the team, and it became part of the soul of a national side that represents barely 160,000 people in the Caribbean.
💛💙 On June 14 they make their debut in Houston against Germany. The smallest country to qualify for a World Cup will not arrive in a luxury bus, but it will arrive with something few teams have: a joy that fits in no vehicle.
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