After failing to qualify for 2018, the U.S. federation got exactly the win it needed with the United Bid winning the hosting rights for 2026
The only U.S. Soccer team competing in Russia this month won the game it had to win, a game American soccer couldn’t afford to lose.
U.S. Soccer, along with teammates Canada and Mexico, secured the right to host the 2026 World Cup in a victory that doesn’t quite atone for the U.S. national team failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, but does provide a desperately needed boost that will eventually help soccer regain much of the ground it lost on that nightmare night in Trinidad last October.