Where to Watch La Tricolor: The U.S. Watch Party Guide
Watching Colombia play in a quiet living room is technically possible, the same way eating bandeja paisa with a fork and knife and no arepa is technically possible. You can do better. Every Colombian match this World Cup kicks off in U.S. prime time, which means the diaspora neighborhoods are going to be scenes.
In New York, everything starts in Jackson Heights, Queens. Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue around 80th Street turn into an open-air stadium on match days: bakeries selling pandebono by the bag, bars dragging TVs onto the sidewalk, and at least one guy with a caja drum who never stops. Get there two hours before kickoff or accept standing room.
Miami does not need instructions. Kendall, Doral, and Weston all claim to be the capital of Colombian Miami and on June 27 it will not matter, because everyone is driving to Hard Rock Stadium whether they have tickets or not. If you are watching on a screen, the lechonerías and panaderías along SW 8th Street and in Kendall start filling up before noon.
Houston's Gessner corridor, the Paterson and Elizabeth areas in New Jersey, Chicago's northwest side, and LA's Pico-Union all have their own pockets of amarillo. The pattern is the same everywhere: find the Colombian bakery, and within two blocks there is a bar showing the game with the sound on.
We are building a city-by-city watch party list for every Colombia match, updated through the tournament. It lands in El Boletín, our newsletter, the week of each game. Sign up at the bottom of this page and bring your jersey.
