It’s official: Brazil is coming to town.
The United States men’s national soccer team will play Brazil on Sept. 8 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., the New England Revolution and the U.S. Soccer Federation announced Thursday. The game will be an exhibition between one of the sport’s historic and present-day powers and one with aspirations of reaching that level.
Team USA has played Brazil 17 times since 1930. Brazil has won 16 of those meetings, most recently a 4-1 victory in May 2012.
The U.S. has won 17 and drawn five of the 24 games it has played in Foxboro since 1991.
The September visit to Gillette Stadium will be Brazil’s fourth since 2007. Brazil beat Mexico in 2007, lost to Venezuela in 2008 and beat Portugal in 2013 in its previous outings at Gillette. An average of 61,313 watched the three games, and the game against the United States certainly will draw a large crowd.
Brazil will be the United States’ second opponent following its disastrous loss to Jamaica in the semifinals of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Americans will use the Brazil test as a warm-up to its 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup play-in game, which will take place in early October.
USA-Brazil also will be a preview, of sorts, to the 2016 Copa America Centenario. The special 100th anniversary edition of the championship of South American nations will take place in the U.S. The 2016 Copa America Centenario will include the host country, Mexico and four other CONCACAF (the region of North and Central American nations and those in the Caribbean) teams in addition to Brazil and the nine other COMNEBOL (South American nations) countries.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on July 30. For more information about tickets to this game, visit revolutionsoccer.net or call 1-877-GET-REVS.
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