A Guide to Houston for Confused World Cup Visitors

Every travel guide to Houston starts by apologizing for Houston. I’ve vowed never to do this, as someone who moved to Houston six years ago and has since joined the city’s legions of passionate defenders. But to love something unconditionally is, by nature, to concede that there may be conditions to apologize for.This year, between June 14 and July 4, Houston will be one of sixteen North American cities to host World Cup matches. Hordes of cosmopolitan, soccer-loving (football-loving, if you will) Latin Americans and Europeans, accustomed to such quirks as a comprehensive public transportation system and pedestrian infrastructure, may land here (and in Dallas) and think: What is this? But the visitor who fully embraces Houston for what it is will find an infectious…

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