Portugal Fans Invades Downtown Brampton

Posted by Brampton Bits and Bites June 26, 2016

Portugal Fans Invades Downtown Brampton

Portugal Wins and Downtown Brampton Ignites

Main & Queen in a sea of Red & Green

The game was not shown on the big screen at Garden Square due to The African Wave festival, but that did not deter rabid Portuguese fans from finding other alternatives to watch their heroes play Croatia in a sudden death EuroCup 2016 match.

Fan waving their flag

While covering the African Wave Festival for this Blogger, and my Newspaper, I kept tabs on how the Portugal and Croatia were doing via Twitter on my Blackberry. The game was tight as there was not score after regulation time, then after extra time.

Garden Square was relatively quiet, and one Portugal fan Sean Stephenson, although disappointed at not seeing the game took full advantage of the Music from the festival to get up and dance.

Sean Stephenson

Well he is really dancing now, and several hundred others who took refuge in various drinking establishments in the downtown area, because it was like dinner bell going off. I noticed on Twitter that Portugal had actually won the game in a shootout, then in roughly five minutes the horns were honking, cheers rang out, and the drums were beating, and that was definitely not on stage.

A swarm of Portuguese fans descended upon the Main & queen Streets in droves, waving, or wearing their flags, and several cars going north south east and west at the four corners waving the flags, honking their horns, hanging out the windows of the cars (not the safest thing to do in some circumstances, but the Portuguese fans although ecstatic that their team won, did keep the celebrating under control and there was security around to make sure nothing got out of hand. especially right at the corner of Main and Queen on The Garden Square side, and nothing did.