[soccer announcer]
-We are at the Rainier Beach Community Center and Complex;
the indoor watch party on June 11th at noon...
[soccer fan reactions]
to bring the World Cup to our communities
in the neighborhoods.
-Go! It’s offsides, offsides!
Yes! [cheering and applause]
We will have activities at all of our 26 community
centers and we will have outdoor watch parties
at seven of our different parks throughout the city of
Seattle from north to south.
[soccer broadcast announcer]
-We got our Seattle Parks and Recreation park
activation screen here.
This is the same screen that we use for all the
movie nights across the city and we're running
the games off of it... And oh!
[crowd cheers]
Egypt just scored!
[soccer broadcast announcer]
We're at Hing Hay Park. This is the first of seven
outdoor watch parties that Seattle Parks and
Recreation is holding in our neighborhood parks around town
during the World Cup here in Seattle.
We're having these watch parties out
in the various neighborhoods across the city.
Everything's kind of focused on downtown,
so we're bringing a lot of these watch parties
to our neighborhood parks so that the whole city can enjoy
and be a part of this event.
[soccer broadcast announcement]
-Bringing up that community hype of like,
hey, this is going on.
It's a once in a lifetime event.
[soccer broadcast announcement]
[horns honking; crowd chanting]
Downtown is where the major action is, but at the same time,
it's gonna be difficult to both get downtown and
not everyone's gonna be able to both get there, get a
ticket, afford a ticket.
[clapping; soccer broadcast announcement]
- I'm a little nervous, yeah.
I couldn't take the day off, and so I get to stop by
during my lunch break and watch a little bit of the game.
So I'm so thankful for that.
- There are also two soccer jamborees that are going on,
two tournaments at Delridge Playfield
and at the Magnuson Playfields.
And those are in partnership with local soccer organizations.
- Mexico!
[clapping]
Mexico! I'm in the wrong place.
[laughter]
I have one person.
Come on, Mexico!
-The driving force for all the activations and
events that we do is free and open to the public.
So anyone can go to these events, soccer fan or not, and
enjoy anything that is there.
Come and watch the game, play some games with some of our
recreation staff or community partners that'll be there,
get something to eat.
It's all, you know, just walk on in to it and have some fun.
[cheering and applause]
-So there's many different ways that you can engage
and celebrate soccer.
-I'm not in the wrong place.
[laughter and cheering]
Yes!!!
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