The United States and Paraguay make their World Cup debut this Friday (12). THE The match will take place at 10pm and will take place at SoFi Stadium, located in Los Angeles, California.
The host team, which is in its 12th participation in the tournament, seeks in 2026, playing at home, do your best campaign in the competition. To this day, the furthest the United States has managed to get is 3rd place in the 1930 World Cup, their first. Since then, their best campaign was in 2002, when they reached the quarter-finals of the competition, but were eliminated by Germany after being defeated 1-0.
Already the Paraguay, which returned to the World Cup after 16 years, is making its 9th appearance. The team has seven players who play in Brazil in its squad:
- Gustavo Gómez: Defender and captain of the national team (Palmeiras)
- Maurício: Newly naturalized midfielder (Palmeiras)
- Ramón Sosa: Striker/Midfielder (Palmeiras)
- Damián Bobadilla: Midfielder (São Paulo)
- Fabián Balbuena: Defender (Grêmio)
- Júnior Alonso: Defender (Atlético-MG)
- Isidro Pitta: Striker (Red Bull Bragantino)
To this day, the Paraguay’s best campaign was the quarter-finals in 2010in South Africa. On that occasion, they were eliminated by champions Spain in a balanced 1-0 match.
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The match will be broadcast on Young Pan on radio and YouTube. With images, the game between the United States and Paraguay will be broadcast on CazéTV, Globo, getv, Sportv, Nsports and SBT.