The U.S. ladies’s soccer crew will meet Brazil at SoFi Stadium in an April pleasant that would be the first ladies’s skilled sporting occasion within the four-year-old stadium. The sport additionally might be a rematch of the groups’ Olympic gold-medal sport final August in Paris.
The match might be a part of a take a look at of the natural-grass carpet system the stadium will use for the 2026 World Cup, when eight video games might be performed at SoFi. The venue’s synthetic Matrix Turf floor might be coated with grass for 4 video games of the CONCACAF Nations League finals March 20 to 23, then will stay in place for the U.S.-Brazil sport, which might be performed April 5.
The U.S. will meet Brazil once more on April 8 at PayPal Park in San José. The Individuals, who beat Brazil 1-0 in France to win their fifth Olympic title, are unbeaten in 15 matches underneath new coach Emma Hayes.
“To play the first-ever women’s professional match at SoFi Stadium is a great honor and one worthy of this team,” Hayes stated in an announcement. “We’re very much looking forward to spending this trip in California, which has produced so many players for the U.S. women’s national team and so many great moments in our history.”
Hayes and her crew will start the brand new yr in California, gathering for a coaching camp Jan. 15 to 21 at Dignity Well being Sports activities Park. The camp might be held aspect by aspect with a “Futures” camp, principally an all-star crew of up-and-coming youth nationwide crew gamers together with a couple of prime, younger NWSL gamers. As a result of the camp is not going to be held throughout a FIFA worldwide break, the crew’s prime European-based gamers is not going to take part.
