The bid to bring soccer’s World Cup back to North America in 2026 was hatched in a Vancouver restaurant, announced in a New York City skyscraper and scrutinized by FIFA inspectors inside Mexico City’s cavernous Azteca stadium.
It was sold in countless other cities — Jakarta, Indonesia, and Bangkok; Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lisbon, Portugal; Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, and Johannesburg — by officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada soccer federations who had teamed up in an unprecedented effort to share the world’s most-watched sporting event.
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