The owner of Atlanta Falcons is ready for the club’s world cup soccer exhibition

Tuesday 10 June 2025 19:30
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Tuesday 10 June 2025 17:38

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The club’s world cup began this weekend and Atlanta Falcons and Epic Mercedes-Benz stadium they were ready to shine.

Starting on Saturday night in the US, two out of 32 competitors will lift the curtain at the expanded Club World Cup. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has declared competition as the peak of club football but there is concern about ticket sales and broader interests.

At the Mercedes-Benz-Megabuild Stadium, which worth $ 1.8 billion, holds 75,000 fans and has a typical Pinwheel roof in Atlanta, Georgia, though, excitement is clear. Because the Peach country is now in the center of domestic play, with the US soccer federation raising the stick and moved to Atlanta.

This will host the three matches of the Chelsea group against Los Angeles FC, Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami versus Palmeiras and the second match of Manchester City, against Al Ain and two rounds of 16 matches and one quarter-finals.

Home for the Atlanta Falcons NFL franchise, MLS Club Atlanta United and the future host of Super Bowl 2028, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium is part of the Ambse parent group, owned by Co-Founder Home Depot Arthur Blank.

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Chief Operating Officer Group Dietmar Exler, former President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, tells AM City that “50 percent of the events we did at the stadium related to football”. Blank “is an American homemade businessman and in 2006/7/8 he watched his son in a secondary school playing soccer and that’s how he was connected,” he added.

“There are two trends in football,” added Exler born in Austria. “In Atlanta we have a metropolitan area with 6 million people, 1M was born outside the US. A large piece of them came from Central America and South America, and what sports they grew up together? Football.

“And the second is the number of children who play football today in high school. This is the fastest sporting sport. Many girls play, many high schools offer it and the American women’s national team has been very successful. We sell more than 50,000 tickets for the Shebelieves Cup Shebelieves Cup Shebelieves Cup has been very successful. [50,644 for USA vs Japan and Brazil vs Canada double header]. ”

The foundation of President Donald Trump’s new journey is apparently not an impact on the Club World Cup this year; The team has been working on their plans for a long time. But the World Cup next year-which will be held together by the US, Canada, and Mexico-feels a little more controversial, with Trump’s history of underestimating comments about its citizens who are hosting.

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Club World Cup Opportunities

Exler said the Club World Cup would succeed, and praised FIFA because he realized that the format was a long time – where the team played in a series of tiered matches – unsuccessful.

“This new event gives us the opportunity to have the best club,” he added. “I have the opportunity to talk to someone affiliated with a river plate and they are rather focused, ‘We want to show these Europeans’.

“Depending on how it ends, we might have a Brazilian team against the Argentina team – there will be fire on the field when they play.”

Exler quoted the famous quote Nelson Mandela about sports that had the power to change life when asked about the moving World Cup and Trump, only added that Georgia was a great state and the entrance to the south. “This is the most friendly business condition,” he added. “This will be extraordinary.”

Whether fans care about the Club World Cup will be clear for the next few weeks. Representatives of the British-Chelsea and Manchester City-if are expected to make good progress, and each will play at the Grand Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Their presence, and the world elite, in some great American arenas can be an opening dish for the main dishes next year. But for Atlanta and football that crosses the stadium with American football, it’s time to shine on the world stage.