One Dallas resident recalls the last time the city hosted World Cup matches back in 1994. He recently celebrated news that Dallas will host FIFA matches in 2026 with his grandson.
PUBLISHED 7:33 PM CDT Jun. 23, 2022DALLAS — The Lone Star State will have two hosting cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, creating a lot of excitement for what’s in store for Dallas in Houston in the coming years. “Going to have an opportunity to show the rest of the world that we, too, are soccer aficionados,” Aguilar said.
It was that World Cup where Aguilar fell in love with sport. Aguilar says, when he went to the games with his family, he saw the “passion, the pageantry, the drums, all of that stuff, and I was mesmerized like, ‘wow, this is really something.’” Nearly thirty years later, Aguilar has collected an array of U.S. soccer memorabilia. In that time, he’s attended countless U.S. men’s and women’s soccer matches, traveled the world and joined the American Outlaws, a supporters group for the U.S.
FC Dallas and Host City Bid officials say the matches could bring nearly $400 million in revenue to DFW. They also predict it will bring in thousands of jobs. “They’re fun to have. We should be glad we’re getting them, but we shouldn’t expect that they’re going to make much difference economically one way or the other,” Davis said.
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