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Algeria Head Coach Vladimir Petkovic (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Algeria Chooses 2026 FIFA World Cup Base Camp in Lawrence, Kansas

Algeria has become the fourth Men’s National Soccer Team to set up 2026 FIFA World Cup team base camp in the greater Kansas City region, choosing the University of Kansas’ Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas, as its training facility. It comes after Argentina (Kansas City, Kansas), England (Kansas City, Missouri) and the Netherlands (Kansas […]

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OhioHealth Performance Center (Credit: Columbus Crew)

Ecuador Secures Columbus, Ohio, Base Camp for 2026 FIFA World Cup

Ecuador’s Men’s National Soccer Team will use the OhioHealth Performance Center in Columbus, Ohio, as its training base camp site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, no details have yet been provided about the team’s accommodation facilities during the tournament. The OhioHealth Performance Center is the training facility of Major League Soccer franchise Columbus […]

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ISU Home of Skating
The ISU Home of Skating is operating at a hotel near the figure skating venue in Milan. (Photo by Jason Geiwrtz)

ISU Builds ‘Home of Skating’ to Grow Sports

At the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan, new concepts in hospitality could be seen throughout the region. In a first, several U.S. national governing bodies teamed up to launch the Starbucks Winter House at a boutique hotel near the city center. But at its base hotel near the figure skating arena, the sport’s international […]

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(Credit: San Diego Jewish Academy)

Switzerland Announces FIFA World Cup Base Camp in San Diego, California

The Swiss Men’s National Soccer Team has secured a training base camp site and hotel in San Diego, California, ahead of this summer’s 2026 FIFA World Cup. After a delegation including National Team Head Coach Murat Yakin toured five potential hotel and training locations in California following December’s group stage draw, the Swiss Football Association, […]

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Ashley Farquharson
Ashley Farquharson won a bronze medal at the track in Cortina, Italy. (Photo by Jason Gewirtz)

Luge Parent Reflects on a Different Kind of Olympic Legacy

Olympic legacy can take many forms. In a traditional sense for host cities, that might be the venues left behind. It might be community initiatives meant to get youth and members of the community inspired to move or be healthy. And in at least one case, there was a direct path from the 2002 Olympic […]

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Tabby Stoecker, left, and Matt Weston, right ((AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

GB Olympic Medallist Tracker: Their Road to Glory in Italy

[Editor’s Note: For the U.S. Medalist Tracker, click here.] The 2026 Olympic Winter Games are taking place in Italy, hundreds of miles away from the hometowns of the Team GB athletes who have journeyed there in search of fulfilling a dream. Of course, some members of the British contingent have had a longer road than […]

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Philadelphia Union's training facility in Chester, Pennsylvania (Credit: Philadelphia Union)

Côte d’Ivoire Picks Philadelphia Union’s Stadium as FIFA World Cup Base Camp

Côte d’Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast, has officially selected Subaru Park, Philadelphia Union’s stadium in Chester, Pennsylvania, as its team base camp training site for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Union’s all-in-one waterfront facility on their Chester, PA campus includes Subaru Park, eight professional-grade training pitches, a dedicated match pitch for their MLS […]

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Atrium Health
Atrium Health Performance Park (Credit: Charlotte FC)

Charlotte FC to Host Scotland’s National Team at 2026 FIFA World Cup

Charlotte FC’s Atrium Health Performance Park in East Charlotte will serve as the training site base camp for Scotland’s Men’s National Soccer Team during the 2026 FIFA World Cup this summer. The training facility, which opened three years ago and is the home venue for Charlotte FC’s first team, NextGen and Academy teams, has eight […]

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Brazil Head Coach Carlo Ancelotti speaks to his players (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Brazil Locks in New Jersey Base Camp and Hotel for 2026 FIFA World Cup

The Brazilian Men’s National Soccer Team will stay at The Ridge Hotel in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and train at the nearby Columbia Park Training Center in Morristown during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Owned by Red Bulls New York FC, Columbia Park Training Center features state-of-the-art facilities, modern training areas, fitness centers, locker rooms […]

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Harder Stadium (Credit: UC Santa Barbara)

Austria Heads to Santa Barbara, California for FIFA World Cup Base Camp

The Austrian Men’s National Soccer Team will stay in Goleta and train in Santa Barbara, California, during the 2026 FIFA World Cup this summer. The team has announced that it will stay in a block of hotel rooms at the five-star Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Goleta and use the training facilities at the nearby 17,000-seat, outdoor […]

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