KINGSTON, Jamaica — The tiny Caribbean island country Curaçao will go to the 2026 World Cup as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for the marquee event in men’s soccer . Curaçao, an autonomous territory of about 156,000 people within the Netherlands kingdom, takes the record of  Iceland , with a population of just over 350,000, which was the previous smallest country to reach the World Cup when it qualified for Russia 2018. A team relying heavily on players born and raised in the