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As World Cup opener nears, U.S. men know they’ll play under a spotlight
IRVINE, Calif. — Compared with what it was like playing in his first World Cup in 2022, this year’s version will be a “slightly different experience,” U.S. midfielder Cristian Roldan said this week.
Four years after the U.S. men advanced to the round of 16 in Qatar, half a world away from their families and fans, the team will open the tournament Friday in Inglewood, California, just 14 miles from where Roldan starred in high school. When the U.S. plays its second group-stage game in Seattle a week later, it will be in the same stadium where Roldan plays professionally for Seattle’s MLS team.
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Weston McKennie, Christian Pulisic and Alejandro Zendejas are three player in USMNT World Cup camp who go way back with each other John Dorton / USSF / Getty Images
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IRVINE, Calif. — Nearly a decade and a half ago, two 13-year-old boys stood on the eighth level of a stairwell at a California hotel tossing wads of chewed gum, trying to get it to stick to the fronds of a palm tree below.
The kids — one from Texas, the other from Pennsylvania — had just met on the bus taking them to a U.S. under-14 training camp, a random happenstance of choosing a seat one row in front of the other. Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie couldn’t have imagined that 14 years later, they would walk together onto the field of a stadium just a few miles away from that hotel, leading their country into a home World Cup.
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USMNT on World Cup doorstep: "We just have to keep dreaming”
IRVINE, Calif. – His talents on the pitch are well known at this point. But Tim Weah has a penchant for timely prose as well.
The US men’s national team winger was downright poetic as he spoke to gathered media about the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of his squad, just two short days before the Yanks’ long-awaited 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign opens in Los Angeles against Paraguay on Friday (9 pm ET | FOX, Telemundo, Peacock).
“Being on home soil, number one, is a dream come true,” Weah told a crowd of reporters at the USMNT’s base camp at Orange County Great Park. “I think when you're part of something so beautiful, and then it being at home, is an amazing feeling. It's a blessing.
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