The news conference was held to announce the U.S. soccer team will play its first qualifier for the 2018 World Cup at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on November 13, 2015.
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The Cardinals released earlier Sunday their ground will undoubtedly be employed for the qualifier. Group C includes Trinidad & Tobago, and the winners of Third Round Qualifying matches between St. Vincent & the Grenadines/Aruba or Antigua and Barbuda/Guatemala.
The newspaper reported on Sunday that the USMNT will play its first home match of the new qualifying cycle, set for November 13 or 17, at Busch Stadium, home of baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals.
One of the sport’s traditional hotbeds in the United States, St. Louis provided one of the most welcoming locales for important USMNT matches during past eras. The Americans will play the victor of the two-legged tie between Aruba and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The match will be part of the penultimate round of North American regional qualifying for the 2018 Russian Federation World Cup, which will see three groups of four teams reduced to six finalists who will then compete in the “Hexagonal” round robin to determine berths in Russian Federation.
Though the city’s only pro team plays in the third-tier USL, soccer has a long history in St. Louis.
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Busch Stadium will host the match, which represents the team’s first game in St. Louis since a 0-0 draw with Paraguay at Busch Conference & Sports Center (now St. Louis Soccer Park) in June 1997. “We’re extremely excited to be the host for this match and are wanting ahead to displaying that we have now…”
