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What started out as merely a soccer tournament for 13 national teams in 1930 has become a global phenomenon with 48 teams, and organizers now see the FIFA World Cup as a significant tourism driver for their local and national economies. Almost a century later, as the United States, Canada and Mexico prepare to welcome […]
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English Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion has revealed plans for what it says would be the UK and Europe’s first purpose-built women’s football (soccer) stadium, If built, the club states that it would become one of only three such stadiums in the world. Elsewhere, NWSL franchise Kansas City opened its CPKC Stadium in […]
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Over the next 11 weeks, SportsTravel will delve into each of the 11 U.S. cities that will host matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be the largest edition ever of the event after it was expanded from 32 teams to 48. It will also be the first to be staged in three […]
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The Dutch Men’s National Soccer Team has chosen the KC Current Training Facility in Kansas City, Missouri as its team base camp during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The KNVB confirmed that the daily training sessions would take place at the training complex of the professional American women’s soccer club Kansas City Current. It added […]
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The English Men’s National Soccer Team will be based in Kansas City, Missouri for the duration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Swope Soccer Village, one of the training facilities of MLS side Sporting Kansas City, will be the team base camp training site for the Three Lions during the tournament. It was identified as […]
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The Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced that reigning FIFA World Cup champion Argentina will be based in Kansas City, Kansas, during this year’s edition of the tournament. Lionel Scaloni’s team will set up at Compass Minerals National Performance Center, the training facility for Major League Soccer’s Sporting Kansas City, for its team base camp training […]
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