The Curaçao national football team is making its World Cup debut for the first time in history. The country is in the grip of the World Cup and people, cars, and houses are turning blue. Darryl Maduro, a 61-year-old Curaçaoan from Rotterdam, says it's a great feeling to be selected for the World Cup. He's been a big football fan his whole life and has analyzed football matches with his colleagues. The World Cup craze has broken out in Curaçao and there are several songs that are popular on social media. The most famous is 'Mama Wa'', which means 'Mama look!' in Papiamentu. Curaçao has worked hard to qualify and received help from Dutch coach Dick Advocaat. He is now the oldest national coach at the World Cup at the age of 78. The Curaçaoans are completely in the grip of the World Cup and are supporting their country with blue waves. Suhail de Windt, a 47-year-old Curaçaoan living in Belgium, says it's an honor to participate in the World Cup. She still remembers the moment when the country qualified and says it feels like a victory. Curaçao is located in the Caribbean Sea and has an area of 444 km². The country consists of the inhabited Curaçao and the uninhabited Klein Curaçao. Officially, the country speaks three languages: Dutch, Papiamentu, and English. You can also hear Spanish there. Approximately 158,000 people live on Curaçao, making it the smallest participating country in both population and area in the history of the World Cup. The island has a very warm climate with temperatures always fluctuating around 30° Celsius. In 1643, the island became a colony of the Netherlands, but that is no longer the case today. Curaçao is a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which means that the Curaçaoans have their own government and parliament, but share King Willem-Alexander with the Dutch.