This story was originally published by our news partners at WBUR. We are republishing it through the New England News Collaborative.
Didn’t shell out a mortgage payment to see the World Cup in person? You can still watch the games shoulder to shoulder with fellow soccer fans in Boston.
From big public watch parties to tried-and-true soccer bars, the Boston area is going all out — pressing, to put it in soccer terms — for the tournament’s return to North America for the first time in more than three decades…