“It’s small island, but it’s soccer, it’s the U.S. and what you’re going to see is a sea of yellow,” S2 coach and St. Vincent native Ezra Hendrickson said this week. "... There’s going to be music. There’s going to be dancing."
This isn’t just a holiday weekend in the United States, the three-day celebration of Labor Day and the dying embers of summer.
Today is Vietnamese Independence Day. Tomorrow, San Marino commemorates the Founding of the Republic.
And down on the tiny Caribbean islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the prime minister has called for a half-day in honor of a more spontaneous and fleeting kind of special occasion.