She waited decades for Scotland to make the World Cup. At 93, she'll be cheering in person

Moira Brown, 93, at her home in Glasgow, where the walls are plastered with Scotland soccer memorabilia. Lauren Frayer/NPR hide caption

GLASGOW, Scotland — At 93, she still likes to drink, smoke and chant salty soccer slogans.

Moira Brown — probably the oldest member of Scotland's Tartan Army of fans — still manages the stairs up to her third-floor apartment in central Glasgow, where the walls are plastered with soccer memorabilia. She still manages transatlantic air travel too — so well, she says, that she only needs a carry-on bag.

"At my age, am I not lucky?" asks Brown. "I waited almost 30 years to see another World Cup. Now I'm the luckiest person in this world."

This is the first World Cup Scotland has qualified for since 1998. It's the fourth that Brown is attending in person. Traveling to the United States with fellow Glaswegian fans, she's got tickets to all of Scotland's group stage matches: two near Boston and one in Miami.

Kickoff in Scotland's opener versus Haiti is at 9 p.m. ET Saturday, and Brown will be in the stands.

Born on Christmas Eve 1932, Brown got her first glimpse of soccer in the mid- to late-1930s, she says.

"Young girls didn't go to the football [games] back then, let alone play," Brown recalls. "But my dad took me."