Friday, 13 August 2010 12:10

Beer, horns, flags and shirts reading messages such as, "If it Ain't Dutch, it Ain't Much" swept the area of Liberty Village during the Spain 2010 World Cup final, July 23, 2010 - where all Holland fans gathered at School Bakery and Cafe (Fraser and Liberty St.) and a flood of Orange, Holland's colours, could be seen inside of School and pouring through the street right outside of the restaurant.

Over the course of the World Cup tournament, Liberty Village had become the place of gathering for supporters of the Netherlands soccer team. Closing Fraser Avenue for the fans and implementing a beer garden right outside of restaurant, Brad, owner of School Bakery and Cafe explained that as Holland got further and further into the tournament, with more and more wins, more supporters began to flock into Liberty Village.  

"There isn't really an identity to Liberty Village so we reached out to the orphaned communities that didn't have a neighborhood and the Dutch came in from the get go," Moore said. "We had no idea that it would turn out to be something like this."

"We would actually like to establish Liberty Village as Little Holland," Moore said. "There is very good reason, with the amount of Dutch people you see in Toronto, they need their own neighbourghood as well."

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