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NEW YORK (AP) —The World Cup is heading to Metlife stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The International Federation of Association football Thursday night in New York, announcing its city host picks for the 2026 World Cup soccer tournament.
Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle and Kansas City are the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the World Cup.
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out. Arlington, Texas; Foxborough, Massachusetts, and Inglewood and Santa Clara, California, were the holdovers. Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, which hosted the 1970 and ’86 finals and will become the first stadium in three World Cups, was selected along with Guadalajara’s Estadio Akron and Monterrey’s Estadio BBVA. Toronto’s BMO Field and Vancouver, British Columbia’s B.C. Place were picked while Edmonton, Alberta’s Commonwealth Stadium was dropped.
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