The May 31 friendly between USMNT and Senegal at BOA Stadium in Charlotte (CSN, Jan 2026), the second to last warmup for Team USA before the World Cup, remains in flux. The USMNT website says the U.S. plays Senegal but other ticket outlets list the opponent for Allstate Continental Clasico as TBD, probably as a result of chaos and penalties that followed the AFCON championship game in January won by Senegal over Morocco 1-0. FIFA issued hefty fines for players and coaches from both clubs for unsportsmanlike conduct. Both Senegal and Morocco are World Cup teams.
According to news reports, clamor continues among European officials to boycott “Trump’s World Cup” after his threats about Greenland and fans’ concerns about high ticket prices and difficulty in obtaining U.S. visas.
Soccer fans here may want to plan their summer evening schedule around the World Cup. Some 40 of the 104 games will be in prime time (21 on Fox, 19 on FS1). The first three U.S. contests are in prime time, and forewarned three-hour pre-game shows are coming. Overall, 70 WC games are on Fox (broadcast TV), 34 on FS1 (cable). That’s twice the number of broadcast games than 2022.
Greensboro (UNC-G) will be the WC training camp for Norway which has three East Coast games in the first round. Germany will train at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem (CSN, Jan 2026).