WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao—A group of children saunter their way through physical education class, amid the searing heat of the mid-spring sun in Curaçao. They bounce between Papiamento (the local language), English and Dutch, while Katy Perry songs blare in the background.
It’s all just a few feet away from a place the island couldn’t be more proud of—the national stadium at the Sentro Deportivo Korsou. Through a darkly lit hallway, past the play area, a pool, some rusty scaffolding and a fence on the verge of collapse, sits the Ergilio Hato Stadium, home base to the now World Cup-bound Curaçao team, the “Blue Wave”.
