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MetLife Stadium’s LEED Gold closed May 5, 37 days before eight World Cup matches, including the Final, that the operations score never measured.
The Kansas City Current lent the Netherlands a World Cup base camp, then reclaimed teal after Oranje’s earliest exit.
UC Davis alum Max Arfsten played one World Cup minute for the United States; UCSB’s Michael Boxall logged 207 for New Zealand before Belgium ended both.
Kansas City's FIFA Fan Festival drew more than 400,000 people to the WWI Museum lawn, where a $30 museum ticket beat the 25,000 cap.
Ronald Araujo sat Uruguay's opener with a calf tear, then posted zero World Cup minutes for a second tournament, before a Liverpool loan.
The 2026 World Cup athlete exception got players onto US pitches, then shifted fans, staff, and Iran’s camp onto Mexico, Canada, and diaspora crowds.
Roger Ibanez started Brazil's World Cup opener at right-back after Wesley's injury, lasted 49 minutes, then vanished from Ancelotti's first post-Cup squad.
Arsenal's Premier League winners joined England's World Cup camp seven days after a Champions League shootout loss, and Saka had to be built back up.
Kylian Mbappé asked in June to face Ronaldo and Neymar at their last World Cup. Both were out by July 6, and France finished fourth.
FIFA's World Cup water bottle climbdown allowed one sealed 20-ounce bottle in the U.S. and Canada, kept Mexico on the ban, and left stadium water near...
