Fans react to their team’s World Cup debut

球迷们对他们球队的世界杯首秀作出反应

What in the World

2026-06-15

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This year’s Fifa World Cup is the biggest yet. The football tournament is being co-hosted by Mexico, Canada and the United States and has a record 48 teams taking part. Four of those teams have qualified for the first time ever: Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan. In this episode, we get familiar with the debuting nations on and off the pitch with some of our BBC reporters, including Paul Njie, a senior journalist at BBC Africa, and Husam Assal, a BBC reporter in Amman. Email: whatintheworld@bbc.co.uk WhatsApp: +44 330 12 33 22 6 Presenter: Iqra Farooq Producers: William Lee Adams, Benita Barden and Julia Ross-Roy Editor: Verity Wilde
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  • The World Cup has kicked off and it's full of firsts.

  • We've got 48 teams in the competition for the first time, first time jointly hosted by three countries,

  • the US, Canada and Mexico, and for some of you guys, another special first.

  • Those were fans from Uzbekistan, Kursa and Cape Verde singing their team's football chants.

  • And they, alongside fans from Jordan, will be singing them at the World Cup for the very first time.

  • 48 teams this year makes it the biggest men's World Cup ever,

  • and just to compare, we had 32 teams in the last World Cup four years ago.

  • So in this episode we're going to hear all about those countries making

  • their World Cup debut and all you need to know about the teams.

  • I'm Mikra, this is What in the World from the BBC World Service.