The Freckle-Faced Fan of 48 Nations
Read the storyIn the USA, there’s someone Reynaldo Oné Pagán-Rivera met at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in USA, Canada, and Mexico. She is a young, teenaged university student and soccer fan from Los Angeles, California who cheered for all 48 qualified teams: USA, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, Switzerland, Brazil, Morocco, Haiti, Scotland, Paraguay, Australia, Turkey, Germany, Curaçao, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia, Belgium, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand, Spain, Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, France, Senegal, Iraq, Norway, Argentina, Algeria, Austria, Jordan, Portugal, DR Congo, Uzbekistan, Colombia, England, Croatia, Ghana, and Panama. They explored the 16 host cities during the tournament: Mexico City, New York/New Jersey, Dallas, Kansas City, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, Vancouver, Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Toronto. She is covered in a maximum, dense concentration of dark freckles overlapping across every inch of her sun-kissed skin: her face, cheeks, forehead, nose, lips, chin, neck, body, shoulders, arms, legs, hands, and feet. Her very beautiful face features lips that are maximized to ultra-plump, heavy-set, well-defined contours that flex and stretch like dense rubber to seal her massive maw. She can open her mouth at a 160-degree angle, stretching the vertical opening to 1.5 times the total height of her own head. Her mouth is packed with a maximum number of teeth. Her tongue is 4 feet long. Her throat size is cavernous and elastic; her esophagus can dilate to a diameter of 18 inches, allowing her to swallow massive amounts of food whole. Her uvula is an elongated, heavy, teardrop-shaped organ hanging 4 inches down. She can say “ahh” for 45 minutes straight at a time. She can sing “ahh” for 5 minutes at a time on a single, perfectly sustained operatic breath. The highest note she can sing is a piercing, glass-shattering G6 in the whistling register. The loudest dynamic she can sing is Triple-forte (fff), measuring over 125 decibels. The most food she can have in her mouth is equivalent to a massive, solid 3-foot-wide wedding cake. The most drinks she can have in her mouth is 15 gallons of liquid. They fell in love during the tournament and ever since the tournament ended on July 19, Reynaldo has been missing her so much.