New York, June 17 (BUS): The 16 cities of the first ever FIFA World Cup spread across three countries were revealed, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino issued a bold statement summarizing the goal of the 2026 tournament, which will largely be held at United. States.
“By 2026, football – or soccer – will be the number one sport in this part of the world,” he declared.
Nearly four years before the football show reached the United States, Mexico and Canada, there were already winners and losers on Thursday: Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Kansas City, Missouri, were among the cities chosen after losing the 1994 competition.
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee and Orlando, Florida, missed the cut, according to the Associated Press.
Eleven US stadiums were taken, all from the NFL. Arlington, Texas; East Rutherford, NJ; Foxboro, Massachusetts, Englewood and Santa Clara, California were the remaining areas of the 1994 championship that cemented American football’s fame.
Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, which hosted the 1970 and 1986 finals, will become the first stadium in three World Cups, selected alongside Estadio Akron in Guadalajara and Monterrey Estadio BBVA.
BMO Field in Toronto and Vancouver, BC Place in British Columbia was chosen to host Canada for the first time, while Edmonton, the Commonwealth stadium in Alberta, was dropped.
Infantino promised a fan festival at the National Mall in Washington, and locations across the three countries are playing at training sites.
Infantino’s goal of reaching the top of American sports seems out of reach. The NFL averaged 17.1 million viewers on television and digital during the 2021 season, while the 2018 World Cup averaged 5.04 million viewers on English and Spanish television in the United States.
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