Yellow Fever Hits Vancouver: How Colombia's Fans Have Become a Force at World Cup 2026
Colombia's extraordinary travelling support heads to Vancouver for Tuesday's last-16 clash with Switzerland, having already rattled opponents Portugal and Ghana with wall-to-wall yellow in Miami and Kansas City.
Colombia’s World Cup journey has been heading steadily northward for three weeks — from Mexico City and Guadalajara, through Miami and Kansas City, and now on to Vancouver. Thousands of Colombian supporters are making the trip to Canada ahead of Tuesday’s last-16 clash with Switzerland, with Néstor Lorenzo’s side chasing a place in the quarter-finals for the first time since 2014.
According to The Guardian, the scale and energy of the Colombian travelling support has genuinely caught opponents off guard. Before his Portugal side faced Colombia in Miami, manager Roberto Martínez noted it was
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