After hours of anticipation and beer-drenched chanting in the streets, every minute of the game seems to fly.
—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 June 2026
While there were no vuvuzelas, the plastic trumpets that put South Africa on the map during the 2010 World Cup, there was lots of chanting and cheering on site.
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