Curaçao men’s national football team receives heroic welcome after WC qualifiers

Soccer fans celebrated at Curaçao International Airport in Willemstad on Wednesday as the country’s men’s soccer team arrived home after making World Cup history as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify.

The team danced and celebrated as they were surrounded by a large crowd who had gathered at the airport to see and photograph them.

Curaçao, a tiny Caribbean island country, is an autonomous territory of about 156,000…