SoFi Stadium, which will host games during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, drew positive reviews from Brazilian and Costa Rican players, as well as the fans.
Omar Duran had never been to SoFi Stadium until Monday. So consider his visit for the Copa América group-stage game between Brazil and Costa Rica something of a trial run for the 2026 World Cup, now less than two years away. “It’s beautiful,” Duran said, gripping a beer in his left hand as he made his away along the stadium’s spacious concourse. “It’s amazing what they have done.” The game, which ended in a scoreless draw, was something of a practice run for the stadium too.
, global soccer’s ruling body and the organizer of the World Cup. prohibits artificial turf in major tournaments, for example, so SoFi’s Matrix Turf field was covered with a temporary carpet of desert-grown natural grass from West Coast Turf for this week’s two Copa América games. For the World Cup, the field will be raised a couple of feet and another type of grass installed. “This is a warm-season grass,” Benedict said. “The
research team thinks this will be a cool-season-grass building. So they're doing a lot of independent testing. But for us, it's just good to see how much how much moisture’s getting in the air. How is it reacting? “It's all good learning and points that we're going to take and share that with people and say, ‘Hey, here's what we got out of this event.
standards but that can be boosted by as much as 10,000 with the addition of temporary stands in the upper deck above the north and south ends. SoFi isn’t the only World Cup venue having a Copa dress rehearsal this summer. Eight of the 11 U.S. stadiums that will be used in 2026 are also staging Copa matches, and eight games into the tournament, some have been found wanting. Many stadiums will have to widen their pitches in the corners and add grass fields over the regular artificial turf.
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