{"id":68671,"date":"2026-03-10T22:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/usmnt-selects-irvine-california-as-2026-world-cup-training-base\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:54:53","slug":"usmnt-selects-irvine-california-as-2026-world-cup-training-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/usmnt-selects-irvine-california-as-2026-world-cup-training-base\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT selects Irvine, California as 2026 World Cup training base"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US will train at the soccer stadium in Great Park<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Move echoes 1994 training base in Southern California<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US opens World Cup on 12 June against Paraguay<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States men\u2019s national team will base themselves in Irvine, California for the World Cup, Irvine Mayor Larry Argan announced in his state of the city address on Tuesday night. The team will train at Great Park Championship Soccer Stadium, a facility built in 2017 and the everyday home of the USL Championship\u2019s Orange County SC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to have Great Park as our training site for the 2026 Fifa World Cup,\u201d US Soccer Sporting Director Matt Crocker said in a statement. \u201cThe facilities are simply outstanding and will provide the perfect training environment for our team to prepare to be successful at the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/10\/usmnt-world-cup-training-base-irvine-great-park\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US will train at the soccer stadium in Great Park Move echoes 1994 training base in Southern California US opens World Cup on 12 June against Paraguay The United States men\u2019s national team will base themselves in Irvine, California for the World Cup, Irvine Mayor Larry Argan announced in his state of the city address &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT selects Irvine, California as 2026 World Cup training base\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/usmnt-selects-irvine-california-as-2026-world-cup-training-base\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT selects Irvine, California as 2026 World Cup training base\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}