Boston, Massachusetts became Scotland over the weekend after the Scots beat Haiti in World Cup soccer competition.
It was the Scots’ first cup victory since 1990 that turned Boston’s bars into virtual Scotland after the match played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.
A uniformed Boston cop was mobbed in the streets by cheering Scottish soccer fans as he showed his best footwork with a soccer ball.
Downtown Boston became a sea of kilts, flags and beaming faces under neon lights, X reported.
The fans began singing “Country Roads,” highlighting shared Scot-Irish roots in Appalachia, blending soccer joy with American folk traditions.
The Boston cop who went viral showing off his soccer skills was Sgt. Connor Hardy, who went to school at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.
Hardy told WCVB-TV that as he approached a group of fans who had a soccer ball, he thought the group would think he would take their ball away.
While he did take their ball, the fans did not expect the sergeant to start dribbling and performing tricks.
“I didn’t expect it to get the legs it did, no pun intended, but it was good,” Hardy said of the viral video.
Boston Police said their social-media pages exploded with views from around the world thanks to the professional dribbling skills of Sgt. Hardy, a now-Scottish folk hero.
