the group. >> they did and they did it with let head can babb to tck to the capital. there will be a huge crowd for shem in had moscow here. two more game coming your way later here, both of them from grp b. ronaldo and company, canhrthey get tgh to the next stage? rtugal takes on their ol coach, iran. that is live next on fox. spain alreadyna elted ma rock your on fs1. yourcon fs1. m but now, there's as quiet day betweenplayful banter nesday.hi and staying late. how am i supposed to read my book? oh, hi tuesday! i'm the quiet day, wa i never supposed to be this much fun! [ screing ] can you, can you win a little more quietly? just...

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>> it didn't get t. ♪ >> poland's wld cup has ended. lumbia three, poland nil. all right. so we are looking at the group b standings again this is match coming right after our coverage iran portugal right here op fox5 coverage starts at 1:00 o'cl. and aga >> yeah. earlier we saw portugal and three-three what a great game that was. what are we looking later today. >> you're looking f dominance from portugal to be fair. i think it was a great warmup for them. th performed well in the waree-three like you said but it christiana ronaldoor other plao nokds 'vee seen throughout this world cup the gap has narrowed twenty

eight quite a bit i can lear an ♪ and morocco they're out of right now but they for pride and their fault teams. they got hereor reason. >> some history. portugal and iran pla td one time in world cup that was in germany in 2006. portugal 12-zero. christia ronaldo d ando all right. >> yes.o welcome the special coverage scoring in that game.ot u of the world cup live from th manager for i iran has managd washington, d.c. rig here in rfk stadium we are on fox5 and portugal twice. >>e knows them very well. from monday through thursy we will be right here breaking down >> yeah. a great manoer as well he's going to be ainst them. everything you need to know world cup style. he wants to get the vicry. partners in crime today, tuck barnes and of course >> john, we got spain coming on fs1 against morocco. obviously a big gam as well. american socager legend john bharkes. >> greate here, guys. if you're you're guy who do do >> john, what's ito feel like b back on the field after all you want in the second round these yea. here i? >> it fee a little bit t's a great question, iedaunting this expere because it's so big as a field that i sbecauseetimes people think that you can actually plan know we were going to get the that. ball out and i know you guys it's really hard to dot this highest level. wanteo knock it around a l you want to go out and compete bit. >> tucker wants to show you he d you w to win because what should have been on the team.& winng does i brings t unbelievable. grea memories here. confidence when you have that confidenceou startetha this a place haslways connected yto a tnd that momentum when use to the pham fan basnd the

you gain momentum -- community of d.c. and theg >> you're not counting goals, surrou area. winning situation here but justb hold back, don't score that go goal. >> no, no, no. even jeing in this no chance. no. environment like a second home >> you just want t on tucker for meov so i l it. heroby all accounts and i'm gog readff some of this you've got earlier i would hav a long list here andin amazg gge honad. >> no bonus for you on game one. very impressive resume' inducted >> exactly. standings theu into the national soccer fall of big teams to watch spain and fame back in 2005. tie at and whether or not the. nine caps with the men's goals. worldal team you playe >> you also want to -- we just talked about iran. cup in 1990, 1994. these teams take pride in beinge the spoily want to be the one under your be mls cup. dark horse. uruguay did that and they were >> a lot of success here. quite earlyon on. other one-nil today they won a lot success. >> no kidding. we're so pleased to have you. y three. >> thank it's great to be iran will want to go out there rtainly, you know, the fever and compete with portugal portua of world cup is here, and we all want tond discuss that talk about it as much to talk about ntro t lha rhythm. a today as always but it's great iranup t seeou that pressure to do it he from the stadium. the old stadium i'm looking forward to getting to the new stadiums well in audi field again. >> they playedl veryagainst this is special spain, too.ai >> transition here. they made spa very veteran john, justck qui, as veteran whose experienced tup world team looknized. >> at times. andis corer dtainly, you know,et what's it look walking out there? the besteeling in the seeing the old style of world, because, you know, of all italianenerybody kind of parks s

the excitement and the adrenaline that you have in a little bit they look to dierent moments of your life, counter with pace and behin i soouldn't be surprised to there's nothing that compares to see that with iran. the gladiator shot that. call >> hold those lines tight. when you're in that tunnel and >> exactly. >> speaking of pace we'll go out you're just sitting there and to mike thomas who's inndet's se you're next tohe player you'll compete against and there's respect but also that kind of if it's picking up pace out mpitetio there. hey, mike. inn. representing your country a >> what's it looking like. certainly youalk out on that >> tucker, we're getting there. field it just raises a whole we're getti. t another lel. the loudness you can't even hear a couple of fans filtering in. we'll talk to them and preview yourself s when you're out there. i don't know if we would be abl iportugal versusran coming up right aerhe he atre b the bar. communicate like we're doingt here now. come on downo t >> unfortunately no fans here. but people forget that this a seat. month long competition. >> yes. >> day is day 12. ngsit whe sand werted off with a pretty good match on fox5 today. spec the after eak. summer is here and everyone's coupling up.al we got uruguay versus russia. all right guy to me wasn't of theay dark horses alw in world cup because for me i look at the common t ball wherey qualify such a difficult qualifying, you know, competi theonm. you know, evedy kind of over looks guy look at thee y'r louis

and dasani two of the best strikingorces rightow. >> we just saw that free kick. >> unbisievable. i mean th is -- he just catches theha goalkeepet's his natural skill and instincts as well. if i see him open that gap just a little bit, yes, what a great finish. hard to save down there. >> absolutely. >> as far as competition this grouping is not considered to have some of the moremidable teams. russia was an afterug tho. of course, we've got, what,sauds round. >> correct. >> youore guy theite going in, right. >> i would agree, tucker. i think that, youou look at this kw, in terms of balancef the experience and know how and being in a world cup before that goes a long way but you still day.to show up on the anything can happen as we're seeing in this world cup. this i probably the first world cup where the gap has completely narrowed and now it's anybody's chance to win games. >> russia performing pretty well

in the h group. >>can't yes. and this is the thing. we look gtermany coming defend defending world champions and ttle bit and thanks to teeny cruz scoring in the knifeth minute the other day against sweden. >> that's anoth one. my heart bleeds for messi iovem hior too long cliche he has to lead the nation all the time ge pressure isetting to him. he looked like jerry mcguire right after he got marriede. looked sad like he was ready to get out. >> let's talk about thisame. >> yes. >> highlights three-zero final score. >> fantastic highlightsas this needed for all right guy. people were talking about all right guy winning their f two games one-nil and one-nil they wanted to put the hurt o somebody a you said before the, with md's new hotter and juicier, russia and the expectations of a 100% fresh beef qur pounder. and any size coke for just $1. n,whole natio um, that's on them and sometees that pre is too much, you know, we sawn i again and again. south africa in 2010, i had it ♪ as a team in '94 the world cup.

my teammates todd and tony and lexi. we all newoy phe the community the way they embraced us and pusdyou can feel the pas. everywhere we went in this country it was tremendsnd subtle such a meting pot but for themfi it'scult. now they finally came up against a really tough opponent in >> ♪ >> the fun and the action you're guy and it showed today. doesn't stop. here >> let's talk thati other game john showing us how it's done and we're still getting it done arabia/egypt to some in bethesda.ea degree this underdogs, if you >> y let's get out to mike wi. thom get the latest. you've got kind of wely don't these watch parties start know what his future holds he says he'll retire froma building the game starts at 2:00. mike? >> it's going to beth big. the nl team he came 's the thing. injured into the world cupy everybody at work. theyent early getting their finallot on the field, and work done and cupping t caddy's scored today. but was it enough? >> marina, ihink you're right. on cordell and bethesda. we got one fan. he's here and ready. there's expectations because of he's waiting for the party to his talent we see how he shines start. this is rudy. >> yes. rudy, tellha me first do you my beloved live pool. think about the world cup so i've been a fan of his from day far? one even talking to former u.s.a >> fantastic world cup. we have never had a world cup men's national t coach bob like this. games. competitive cse bradley had egypts well a took over the team. seeing thealent that h has everybody is trying hard -- most teams arerying hard.

coming in injured not good. one or two teams are not doing as good it hasiceen fantast ramos one of your guys that you and it will go allhe way u love. >> he came in hard. july 15th. everybody has got to get >>rom. we won't fight on the air. involved and watch these games. but it is -- it is something >> what are you doing here where thes expecta are high. specific daal? you got a party going. >> we got a big partyoming. >> you look at egypt, difficult we got a bunch of people coming for them. >> realat quick. wh a mindset once your b team here. we have iran playing portugal. haeen eliminated are you giving your heartnd a soul or s a key game for botheams thinking aboutummer vacation. specialsly for iran. >> that's a great question,yo iran has to win. u tucker. re takin taking on the pride m-hmm. >> portugal cano on if they or. >> of cou >> for sure you are. you want to go out and ctpete tie or win. you wan to walk away with point they've been strategizing and at least w from thisorld cup. you don't want to goes all games planning and organizing for weeks and months and close to a we did it in 1990 back at that world stage in 40 year now. so everybody is excited. orter: all rig i'll put you on the spot here. years. but now a ds, look, it's like that's the big game of the i said it's anydy's wor cup game -- game of the day. iran/portugal. they wanted to competes tshiossd give me ainal score. >> we forget in theay u.s. thers >> one-nothing iran. so many big >> there you go. leagues we've got a little bit et.oh, picking the u ofan everything for soy of ys, the party starts herero at these countries egypt, talking caddy'sbably about 1:30. you're guy the world cup is >> yes. come on down. have a blast. something that people wait for game.t for four years and once they get i'll zen it back to you at rfk. to it, if they can'tass this >> all right. round, it is a total shock tthe. thank you very much mike.

>> io and you know, i was lucky enough having a great time out here. of course, with our expert john to represent my olympic harkes and marina and we got 8 s i ale a soil soil plenty more on o special coverage of the world cup cheing korea you get that many cycle right aft break. and bui it up. >> the big game is right here there's a lot of work. fox5 coverage starts at therat goes inte'o that and it n 1:00 o'clock.an versus portugal. be disappointing. iran has never made it passed you still want to ge able toet there from, the we talk about fight this one hard try tot the u.s. not being t it's get over ronaldo. well they'll do i'm not sure hurtful. i'm not going to cry on the air, about that. anyone can try. but -- [ laughter ] >> it will be a challenge forwi sure. >>ll be a challenge. >> i it still hurts quite a bit. >> i have sunglasses if you need >> all right. we'll be right back. them. >> i might nee those. ♪ it is difficult you want to walk ♪ away from pride. s group a who goe on to the next round here? we' got you're guy and russia,ig r? >> yup. to me ie think y guy was a favorite coming in. iicked them actually to go really far intoua like therter finals and semis andeyond and sometimes you need that luck. you know w is the draw like who is the neck team i'm getting? but more often than nooo ik at you're guy and kaboni as i talked about it getting his first goal today which is excitin ecuelles become the sec in three consecue

world cups so captain he needs to get the goal that lifts hism.se saw and- >> the killer. >> you're guy. you're guy comes together. >> that would be nice to see. >> natural chemistry. >> we'll kate wait for the afternoon games. we'll talor m about what we can look forward to thisafterno. >> some good ones. >> a lot cooking. >> a lot going on in group b. speaking of the games this afternoon, we'll go -- we've got porters all over t place at these watch parties and where is annie? >> annie is atr tyson's garden. she's holding down the fort down there. annie, what ng it l like? >> reporter: hey, yes, i'm holding down the fort here a tyson's beer garden in tyson's corner, and man, they have been packed since the world games -- world cup gamesck started. pa to capacity. it's just eeen anxciting ride for all the fans in the dmv because let's face it the h.c. reas such a big internngional followi a lot of people are excited f these

games, and right here, they have opened the doors early at 10:00 a. they are ready. oh, we have our first fan here.. mr. iran i guess you're rooting for team iran? are you taking a picture of me. >> we'll take one together. how excited are you about the game today? >> i'm very excited. got here twoours early actually. >> youe about to order. so go. iran working the team is hard. they have been setting all 32 screens here insideee tyson'sr garden we een got the owners matt andtt payman. one of the owners. good morning. >> good morning. >> obviously you guys a rooting for iran, you got the t. t-shirt on you're ready. you cateduch an at ming atmosphere for fans. >> we'reld your worup headquarters we'll be packed.am every othere we've been packed. my staff h h beene since 8:00 in the morning setting'r u. e super excited. we got 18 wings for eight dollars. killer deals. happy hour starts at 3:00. ends at 9:00. it's going to b crazy here. >> reporter: it's going to be crazy, and this is really where

it popping as fars the game space because it's two levels outdoor spa putting up the tv wall every screen in here is locked to fox5 ♪ >> so we have -- this is like it fororld cup coverage. mean an basically. what the fans saying about the games so far. younger twin. >> so far everybody seems to be >> family affair super excited. >> it is a family affair. ey just reall happy to get piting two of the d.c. together and have some fun united players former now together and enjoy great soccer current and i think before we stt trivia, i think we should watch these guys play their hearts out and see who gets on start kind of with the real de top. >> let's not -- i mean, look, deal. >> well, yo can tell i shaved both teams havela reallyed their hearts out obviously it's obviously. grit, it's competitive. and i want you to guys to you all are rooting for iran. juggle. >> i'lle' try. any portugal fans in the house? >> johns the deal with this segment. h>> we have trivia wit the two >> definitely there will be. of you. john talk about the pril you they're going to come in aarge mustto have your son group, but we're going to kick playing ki f oflowing in your footsteps playing>> d.c. their butts. [ laughter ] unite. a lot of pride actually. >> let me ask you real quickly. we're proud o him as a great do you feel like iran, okay, great team, solid team, strong young man. soccer part of -- >> we're going to keep playing. team, o butcourse they do ronal. >> keep going. >> dad is like i'm done. do you feel like thech c yoaou , >> to see him walk out and my wife cindy and i the family daughters laure and lilly, we take a lot of pride in the way for -- the current coach forav that he's come out and iran hg been portugal's represented himself he's always

coach a wild card, don't you been a great young man and now think?are you still that he's a great soccer player and confident. >> it might give him a oittle f advantage but our defense we love wha he's doing and we is really solid. i think that's what hold them.>> best.im all the you crush it in college. >> 100%. it's that been the talk two trophies. >> just one. forearm iran. come on over here guys. >> procers -- ile we send i back to you >> we don't check here. guys we're just going to have >> we don't fact check. fun at the self tee station here. i'moing to grab -- goal. >> i won the mack and he won the oiat are you g to grab. mack. >> soccer ball. >> come on out h tysonss beer >> that's two. >> 57 year gap in between. garden big watch party happening >> you wantta to s asking some >> we'll see you then. questionsou. >> back to you guys. get these questions wrongig >> we need a camera. you're in b trouble. >> sanlet me undd this. we're standing on soccer field >> kick it off. head.u go in the middle of rfk. >> all right. there's no beer vendors here. what's going on. john -- 8 pounds, 4 ounces.h >> we're at the wrong place. how muc he weighed in when you we got to hit up a bar next ti he was born. ind.r time. >> rate your children from >> talkings favorite to least favorite. tomorrow's show will beo held. th yee'spou why. >> they're all my favorite. >> i am just kidding. yeah, right. coming up:00 o'clock spain and okay. when did iain scoreir his f morocco. fs1 which is our sister station goal for d.c.irnited? 're excited about that one, st goal for d.c. unit united to . when you look at spain certainly was an old pick up g a team that won in 2,010 for the bs hlu your dad playedor? s first time. great expectations on them. quality time.

>>en? i love spain. picked them f the fin i also >> wow! had brazil. >> doav ie it right? spn rightow -- no, to pick >> is it eight? the final. that w the final the two >> well if you'reountin a teams. but i had spaint winningspain lone spell nottingham forest it would be eight but it is seven. going in there i think the, you u can count it eight, you know, wealk about barcelonariele know. >> i'm done with these. >> john, when iain make his d players are that come together. professiebut with d.c. >> we'll tk about that. united and who did theylay >> quality, quality. >> i'm looking forwa i tot. against?>> debut.d against -- jeez, his >> tk key taco. that good egg were actuallyng. >> we've got miketanding byn bethesda at patti's that's a ever is kind of blurry right now. iendlier environment for the d watd water, i n i can't see so. >> iain do you know the answer portuguese fans. to that trivia question. >> mike, they know mee.y nam >> my first gam>> say hi to everybody for me.>> r. yeah, up at yankee stadium against new yo city tucker guys, absolutely right. it'ssu virginia ver maryland >> egan tackled him to the ground and. went to help him out getting ready for prophy to you and he sd wow y have gallon iran starts this beautiful hair. that was it. afrnoon. that's all we know. we're at caddy's inoi bethesda >> you got a hair commercial out comen us, guys. of that one. watch party just getting >> that's all you need to know, airight. >> i what was your dad's started. we're going in. we'll see you after t break. stick around fox5 special world first goal with d.c. uned and cup coverage comes back right against who and what was the after thi date roughly? ♪ >> how old were you back then? >> yes, '96. >> agast?

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♪ all right. we are back and coming u after our show coverage starts for the iran portugal game right here on fox5.we'll be talking about that coming up. lot of significance it. >> rdilly does. >> dng on the result there there. >> absolutely. you got former national team coach carlos, who was twice forg portugal heets a chance to compete agaf he can upset themst a win. there's a lot of emotions high in this game. >> have to show how many how much gas he really has. >> he's been pure finisher in this world cup. brilliant the way he did the equalizer kyounow, if the first game against spain. it wasn't brilliant for you, i'm sorry >> he showed up play. >> he did show up he gets a hat trick and now he's pushing forat th golden. 'll s. >> we're all about the watch parties. weust talked toike a few minuting a many gog back o to caddi's in bethesda to get the vyatest on what's happening up in bethesda. oti know there's a of

excitement about this afternyn's game. anime you include teams like portugal and spain you can get a pretty good crowd. >> it doesn't matter what time of day. what day. what's up, mike? >> reporter: um hey, guys. it's going to be absolutely packed here at caddy's now admittly it's a little quiet right now. you see the bar a little empty at the moment but i'm told that bidtime crowd exp later on this afternoon f specifically all right. the iran and the portugal game. that's the big one of the afternoon. before w go, we need iran can poe ten thally knock predictions. we've g two big games. portugal knock out of contention here snd iran/portugal.ai morocco do a little later on >> i. .> portugal two to nothing this afternoon. of course, all eyesre going t >> portugal three-one. be on ronal in some more had for >> spain. >> spain three-zero. >> i was going to say three this world cup. going to have a littlem out intd three-zero. of 16. live look at the bar here. pretty quiet at the momen coming up later we'll talk to ron feature ronnie will tell about all the specials coming up the party going on later on this

afternoon again i i appears to the quiet side right now. but as we get io the afternoon hours, he's expecting crowds one to 200 people and a lotf them he says will be rootg for specifically irano see whether or not they can knock off the big dogthey seem to be the undeg this one on theutside looking in but if they can knock off pour few gallon later on today, it's going to be big news. comingp later we'll talk to ronnie let you know about the specials and see in you a littl. bit, i'll send it back out to rfk to you. ♪ >> mike, thank you. with every big srtporting event doesn't matter what it is you have got to have something to munch on. am i right. >> food segments.ng >> cookiith como. >> i'm getting hungry. we do tt reall well here on fox5. er a como backt home. what do you gothaerr glynn i lovet you're holding it out down on the field. that looks amazing. i have chef here and he'll givee come back with you scial world cup edition of cooking with como. don't go anywhere. we'll be right back. ♪

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i don't even have words. >> fingers crossed hoping for a win. crossed.rs i hope it's portugal we'll see what happens. >> i like your attitude. very relaxedbout it. >> yup. >> portuguese cuisine you brought in amazing appizers entrees and desserts. what do you have here. e south of portugal.ams from i do that with the somatoauce and roasted peppersnd garlic a white wine. >> very fresh and very light entree. >> very fresh and also we have the fish. g>> you're s the fish -- >> fish we can do with -- >> it takes d threeays. >> yes, itakes about 48 hours, two d or could be three days depends how salty it is but we v have to beery careful not f take too longlavor gets all out. >> there's a lot of fresh seafood involved in ptuguese chinese.

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purple r lineight there. we're thereince 1999. >> please come and see usn. >> rig chevy chase authentic taste of portuguese cuisine.i'll be having my celebn right here atox f. thrilled to bring you this special ed dig of cooking can you como. >> want to tosst back to rfk as we gear up for the 2:00 p.m. game. thanks e. we're debating whether we should go for' tucker face or that goal post.s >> all you john. show everybo how it's done. >> come o tucker. >> that's like wor cup action right there. team fox5. you got it. we'll be right back.

♪ all right. we a back with a guy who knows it all about rfk stayed jump greg o'dell preside c ando of events d.c. thank you very much for being here with us. >> thank you for mavinge. >> we've got all of north america world cup 2026. >> guess what, d.c. will play a pivotal rol>> e're a finalist, right. >> absolutely. soe are -- obviously united bid mexico, canada and the united stes. 23 cities from across tse three countries and when they finally decide, ten of them will be for u.s. and three will be in mexico and canada but we're excited we know wads will be part of it. >> yes. >> absolutely. i rember back in the day coming to world cup games here, '94.

>> yt. >> ias such great experience for me, you know, i w a little bit younger. >> sure. [ laughter ] >> for those that don't know what to expect what's it look world cup game in d.c.ur >> s this is obviously a soccer town. such rich history thanks to gentleman like this guy over here. but you know we've seen even in recent times with the world cup the highest tv ratgs here for epl and also for the world cup in 2014 highest tv ratings we history from u.s. soc tro men and women playing here most winning yesterday teams played right here at r. we'll see tremendou exposureford stage again s but alsow again that we're soccer town he. >> all rig d.c. united back started back in '96. >> yes. >> great history here. 20 plus years but we got a new stadium to look for. tell us what we can expect. >> we do. state of the art wonderful stadium will open july 14 ethyl play vancouver, oh, again, it's the audi field we'll therelity as well and we know the team

will pro vl totory as they play thats their new stadi well. >> you were just saying that if final alsopossibility it's rign d.c., right. >> correct. if we have the semi final match it wl be playe at fed ex and unfortunately because of the size probably the finals will be played played in l or new yorkit fantastic to have at fed ex the1 the9 world cup and lots ofte rnational friendlies there as well we're excited the whole city will be a buzz. the reason wille a buzz we're excited when we host it here. >> i want to touch on what will happen to this facility inhisar. first, john, for you give memory here.ne memory >> absolutely. just for everybody else out still training, greg, to be a striker or a goalkeeper in that final in 2026. a >>olutely. >> so, you knowt, no, memories i was here. i was telling greg obviously winning the title in '96 inr the fiss was tremendous, but bringing it back here in '97 was pretty special. we had 57,000 plus fans in the

rain pouring down rain. >> itas at game. >> in thisum stadi you couldn't hear yourself speak. >> absolute. >> acoustics hererir biant this gritty connection tha twe have withhis stadium is amazin>> mazing. >> it really is. m getting a little weepy eyed but any way, no, we've had some great momen here. really have. >> the redevelopment project would still be a part ofrlhe wo cup 2026, right.ut >> aely. for the short term we probably havey probabl five key elements one of wch will be multi purpose fields but we think we'llly a training faciliny at theimum and host a fan fest here for the world cup in 2026. we'll see what happens i the long run we're actually have a stayed jump here or not but lots r excitementegardless of what gets built here in the future. >> once again there's no final decision on what happens to rfk. >> correct. in the immediate we'll focus ono a s term plan that will activateushe gap. multi purpose fields a market hall, a greatex and rec c and see in the future whether we'll he stadium here. certainly do those s-term elements that can support a

long-term anchor >> thanks for being with us greg. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up two more matches one on fox5. one on ns sports one. when we come back we' breaking g it all down. ♪ ♪ hi it's me, tuesday.