00:00Give her everything, it means that Viva Mexico!
00:02A Madre!
00:04Bonjour everyone, we have landed in Toronto.
00:07My name is Sofia Sheros and I'm here with BN Sports.
00:10Today is the first day of the FIFA World Cup.
00:14The day we have all been waiting for.
00:25We'll start, it's going to be way better than 2010.
00:28It's our revenge and we're at home.
00:31So definitely 5-0 is going to be the final score.
00:33Give her everything, it means that Viva Mexico!
00:3716 years on, the same match.
00:40So yeah, proud moment, proud to be South African and supporting the boys.
00:44Yeah, I hope them all the best and yeah, it's exciting.
00:48Let's go Bafana Bafana!
00:58Bafana Bafana!
01:01Bafana Bafana!
01:03Bafana Bafana!
01:04Mexico!
01:06Bafana Bafana!
01:07Mexico!
01:09And that's a wrap on the first game of the FIFA World Cup here in Toronto.
01:14The host city of Mexico takes home the win, 2-0.
01:17And as you see, Toronto is going crazy and loves football!
01:33Bafana Bafana Bafana!
01:46Well, the trip is only three hours and a half.
01:49From here, from Mexico City.
01:51Where did you go to the city?
01:52At 5am to be early because they were closed.
01:56So, you came from South Africa.
01:58Yes.
01:59How long was the travel?
02:01Well, we live in the United States, thank you.
02:03Ah, you live in the United States.
02:04And what time did you arrive today?
02:06Last night.
02:07From Mexico.
02:08How long did you take to arrive?
02:10About two hours, but I came from New York to arrive.
02:13And where did you go to the night?
02:14Yes.
02:15What's your name?
02:16Yes, I'm in Tlatelolco, but I come from Pachuca.
02:19Yes, the family is from Chihuahua, from Camargo Chihuahua.
02:22We also are from Kansas City, all my people from Kansas City, and all my people from Camargo Chihuahua.
02:29Do you think it's very expensive to buy this?
02:31No, it's fine, man, it's like this today.
02:34We cost about $150,000.
02:37Yes, it's very expensive.
02:38Yes, it's very expensive.
02:39Did you buy something to buy something to buy?
02:41What's my name to buy?
02:42Well, I just bought of $150,000, but I bought a ticket.
02:47I bought it.
02:50Yes, I bought it.
02:52Yes, I bought it.
02:52Yes, I bought it a car for a while.
02:53I bought it for a while.
02:55I bought it for a while.
02:56You bought it for a while.
02:58Yes, I bought it for $150,000.
03:02Well, I bought it for all $500,000.
03:08And last year we were earning about $15,000
03:14$15,000 for 4 games
03:17Then we went to Guadalajara
03:19Ok
03:20We're going to Guadalajara
03:222, 2, 3, go
03:24Viva México
03:26Do you think you can do what to do if Paraguay is champion of the world?
03:30I hope my team is watching because I already told you
03:32But it would have to give me a call and say
03:34I don't want to go back
03:37I'm Paraguay, 100%
03:39You're in the early days of the debut
03:41Yes, we're here for the inauguration of the United States
03:46A Paraguay in Los Angeles, you're coming to see the World
03:49I'm coming to see the World
03:50Where is Paraguay in this World?
03:52Look, I think Paraguay is, yes or yes, to at least a quarter or a semi-final
04:00That's what we all wish most
04:02We all want to be champions of the world
04:05I think it will go very well
04:06I hope it will arrive at the end of the semi-final
04:08That pass a little bit more
04:10of the last World Cup.
04:11And I hope that we get to the end.
04:13Who knows, we'll come back after 16 years.
04:15We hope that we'll be at the end.
04:17We hope that we'll be at the end.
04:18We're really with the hope.
04:20And we're all very happy in Paraguay.
04:23There's a lot of fun, there's an incredible party.
04:24We're all ready.
04:26Do you think about what to do
04:27if Paraguay is the champion of the world?
04:29I hope my team is watching because I already saw you,
04:32but it's going to take a call and say...
04:34I'm going to leave you alone.
04:36I'm going to leave you alone.
04:37I don't know.
04:38I don't know how I'm going to celebrate,
04:40but it's going to be great, obvious.
04:42What do you think of the team, of Alfaro?
04:44Alfaro, I believe, is another of the stars,
04:47another of the figures that Paraguay had in this time.
04:50He's a guy who, incredibly,
04:52changed the whole mentality of the team
04:53because with the same players,
04:55he transformed the mindset of the team,
04:57he plays another thing.
04:59So, what today Alfaro brought to Paraguay
05:02is to believe in himself,
05:04to dream and to achieve what he always planned,
05:08the goals that he put together.
05:10The professor Alfaro did a very interesting job,
05:14very good with all the players.
05:16How many real options have Paraguay
05:18to win in the inauguration, practically?
05:21Paraguay is a very strong candidate today.
05:24I think it's a 98% of the probability of winning.
05:282-0 to start to start.
05:30I think it's a bit complicated,
05:33it's an anfitrión.
05:34I think it's a 2-1,
05:35with a goal of the goal,
05:37it's over the hour,
05:38and we're going to lose everything here.
05:392-1.
05:40I think 2-1 Paraguay.
05:42I think it's a 2-1,
05:43suffering as always Paraguay makes you suffer.
05:45And a 2-1,
05:47gana Paraguay.
05:482-1 Paraguay.
05:50My friend Diego Gómez
05:51and Nigelito Almirón.
05:53I think Almirón and Gómez.
05:55Enciso, let's see,
05:56it's a bit underestimated,
05:57but I think it's true.
05:58I think it's normal to see Enciso
06:00at least one goal,
06:01and I trust Tony Zanahoria.
06:03The goal of Almirón.
06:04I think Gómez will make the two goals.
06:08Gustavo Gómez,
06:09one of the head,
06:10so he has to make it,
06:11and one of the goal of Almirón.
06:13Oh, Paraguay.
06:15They gave us, I think,
06:16a 5% chance to qualify.
06:18The fact that we were able to win the group
06:19and qualify straight out
06:20just shows that we don't really care
06:22what people are going to say.
06:23We're here live in Stockton, New Jersey,
06:25just a few days away from Haiti's first game
06:28at the FIFA World Cup 2026 edition
06:31for the first time in 52 years.
06:34This is their first open media training,
06:37open to the fans.
06:38The vibes are immaculate.
06:40We're getting an exclusive look
06:41at what the team is going to look like this summer.
06:43I'm super proud to be here.
06:45The team has been through a lot to get to this point,
06:48not having played any home games in Haiti.
06:51Only one player from the Haitian national team
06:54who actually gets the opportunity to play in Haiti,
06:56a team full of players from all over the diaspora.
06:59This is their opportunity to show the world
07:01what they're made of.
07:02But you've heard enough from me.
07:03We've talked about the games coming up.
07:05We've talked a little bit about how the team got here today.
07:07Let's go talk to some fans.
07:11I want to ask you guys for some predictions as well.
07:14Obviously, we have Scotland.
07:16We have Brazil.
07:17We have Morocco.
07:18How do you think we'll do up against those three teams?
07:20Oh, yeah.
07:21But first at home, sincerely,
07:23we know that the first game with Scotland
07:28will be our game.
07:30Yeah.
07:31That's the reason for this weekend.
07:34I will go to Manchester City to watch this game.
07:35Me too, me too.
07:36Oh, yeah.
07:36Great, great, great, great.
07:37I'll see you there.
07:38Yes.
07:39Yeah.
07:40And, but after we have Brazil.
07:43Brazil is a country that we are really friends with.
07:47You know?
07:47Brazil has a lot of players.
07:50Rafinha, Vinicius Jr., Neymar, you know?
07:55But it will not be easy.
07:57Yeah.
07:57Okay?
07:57But Morocco is the same of Morocco.
08:00You have Hakimi, first team.
08:03Yeah.
08:03And one of the best teams in Africa.
08:05But the thing that we know is that we will do our best.
08:09Yeah.
08:10You know?
08:10Just to across the first round to go to the second round.
08:14There's one thing that you want people who maybe don't know as much about Haiti
08:17to know about Haiti, about our culture.
08:19What would it be?
08:21I think you said it.
08:22The resilience.
08:22I think this group shows that day in and day out.
08:26We fight nonstop.
08:28We don't.
08:28We try not to take no for an answer.
08:30We're going to go to the 90th minute.
08:32And I think if you watched our qualifying group, you saw that they gave us, I think,
08:37a 5% chance to qualify.
08:39Yeah, that's cool.
08:40The fact that we were able to win the group and qualify straight out just shows that we
08:43don't really care what people are going to say.
08:44Yeah.
08:45I think pride is another thing that comes to mind when you think about Haiti being the first
08:50free black republic and being able to help get so many other countries their republicans
08:56independence and all that stuff.
08:57So I think that we take pride in that and that's what we are going to try to bring on
09:01the field
09:01and show pride and resilience.
09:02And that's I think that's the two big words for us.
09:07The South African invasion has arrived in Mexico City with the 2026 FIFA World Cup underway.
09:13We asked fans how much they remember from the iconic opening match of South Africa 2010
09:19and what has impressed them the most about Mexico.
09:22And Mexicans are amazing.
09:24The food are amazing.
09:25They are very friendly.
09:27I think the finliness of the people, they kind of match our energy.
09:30The food has been unbelievable.
09:32We went to Taco Del Val.
09:34We've been having the street food.
09:36This morning, so I've been here one day.
09:38I have had a lot of tacos already.
09:41The tacos here are different from the tacos we're used to eating in South Africa.
09:47I was there, Soccer City Stadium.
09:50It was an amazing experience to be part of the World Cup.
09:53You know, that actually made me, from the day I attended World Cup,
09:58my brain started growing.
09:59So I'm very grateful for that.
10:01In 2019, I don't remember.
10:03I don't remember.
10:04No, I don't remember.
10:06Yeah, so in 2010, I was actually in Cape Town.
10:10I didn't go to the game, but we followed it and we all celebrated the Shabalala goal.
10:14We should have won that game, but we were happy with the draw.
10:17I was there.
10:19You must remember the vibe.
10:20You remember the vibe there.
10:21The atmosphere was electrifying in South Africa.
10:24We welcomed everyone that came to South Africa in the 2010 World Cup.
10:28It's one of the best FIFA World Cup ever in the history.
10:32I was painting.
10:33I was behind a room painting this wall.
10:35I mean, when they scored, I went around to see,
10:38because everybody was celebrating.
10:39So I went inside somebody's house to just go see the goal.
10:41The first goal, it's Shabalala.
10:44Yes, they added only to see the Shabalala.
10:47Of course, I remember the exact moment when Shabalala scored that goal.
10:51Goal for Africa.
10:53Goal for South Africa.
10:55Rejoice.
10:56Our first player, Shabalala, hit you guys with a great shot.
11:01Yeah, Shabalala.
11:06We played 1-1.
11:081-1 of course, yes.
11:10Long, you guys came back and they disappointed us.
11:13We played the 1-1.
11:15Yeah.
11:16Yeah, it was 1-0.
11:171-1.
11:182-1.
11:19I'll give them one.
11:24I've been telling everyone it's 2-1.
11:26We're going to have two.
11:27And because of your hospitality and your friendliness, we'll give you a goal.
11:30Probably 1-1 again.
11:322-1.
11:33South Africa, 2.
11:35Mexico, 1.
11:361-0.
11:38Tomorrow's score is 2-1.
11:40Flavor, flavor, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp.
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