The Dutch royal family has attracted attention by watching the World Cup matches of both the Netherlands and Curaçao national football teams in the stadium on the same day.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima started the day by watching the Netherlands national team's victory over Sweden in Houston, USA.
Afterwards, they quickly flew to Kansas City and took their seats in the stands at the Curaçao–Ecuador match.
Curaçao is a small island state and also part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. For this reason, the royal family supported both teams and changed the orange Netherlands scarves to blue Curaçao attributes for the different games.
On the Curaçao side, the players said that the presence of the royal family in the stadium was motivating.
The King and Queen of the Netherlands visited the team's locker room after the World Cup match. The King danced with the team members, expressing his joy. This gesture by the royal family became one of the memorable moments of the tournament. While the Curaçao players were celebrating the historic result, the Dutch King and Queen personally congratulated them.
It should be noted that with this result, Curaçao earned their first points in the World Cup, making history and drawing attention as one of the smallest participants in the tournament./ “Qafqazinfo”