Overview:
The 2026 World Cup is shortly approaching, with the draw being accomplished on Dec. 5 and FIFA revealing the match schedule and venues on Saturday. Haiti will begin its marketing campaign towards Scotland at Gillette Stadium in Boston on June 13. Les Grenadiers will then journey to Philadelphia to face Brazil at Lincoln Monetary Area on June 19. The crew will play its remaining group-stage sport at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on June 24. If Haiti advances previous the group stage, their subsequent match and venue will rely upon their placement.
Haiti’s males’s nationwide soccer crew will play its three World Cup group stage video games in Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta, respectively. Miami and New York—properties to most Haitian immigrants in the USA—haven’t been included, disappointing many followers. Nonetheless, Haitians are nonetheless glad with Boston and Atlanta.
Massachusetts, the state the place Boston is positioned, has about 63,000 Haitian immigrants and is roughly a 4-hour drive to New York, the place round 113,000 Haitian immigrants dwell. Many Haitian Individuals took to social media to share their pleasure about Haiti taking part in a World Cup sport of their city or a close-by state’s metropolis.
Translation: Ohh, we received Boston. Let me go inform them to make me a go well with with the tops of cooking pots. Stunning individuals in Boston, let’s go collectively. I’m critical. DM
Translation: Alright, wager, I can be in Boston for the sport. Alaso.
Translation: Boston, in my hood.
Haiti will face Scotland on June 13 at Gillette Stadium in Boston, MA, at 9:00 p.m. Les Grenadiers will then play towards Brazil at Lincoln Monetary Area in Philadelphia, PA, on June 19 at 9:00 p.m. For his or her remaining group-stage sport, Les Grenadiers will face Morocco on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA, on June 19 at 6:00 p.m.
Georgia has a Haitian American inhabitants of about 28,000. In the meantime, Pennsylvania is dwelling to about 30,000 Haitians. Many are very dissatisfied as a result of none of Les Grenadier’s video games within the group stage is scheduled in Miami, the town with the biggest Haitian American group. Hundreds of the town’s over 330,000 Haitian Individuals must journey north to attend Haiti’s matches.
Tickets are at the moment accessible for buy on FIFA’s site till Dec. 15. The matches can be performed at night time, so warmth won’t be a lot of a problem and not one of the stadiums Haiti is scheduled to play in are at excessive altitude.
If Les Grenadiers attain the second spherical, they might play in Miami at Laborious Rock Stadium.
To be one of many 32 out of 48 groups to advance previous the group stage, Haiti should end both within the prime two of its group or among the many Eighth-best groups within the first spherical.