U.S. women’s soccer team set to face Brazil at SoFi Stadium
1 month ago

U.S. women’s soccer team set to face Brazil at SoFi Stadium

LA Times  

SoFi Stadium in Inglewood is set to play host to an international friendly match between the U.S. women’s national soccer team and Brazil in April. The U.S. women’s soccer team will meet Brazil at SoFi Stadium in an April friendly that will be the first women’s professional sporting event in the four-year-old stadium. “To play the first-ever women’s professional match at SoFi Stadium is a great honor and one worthy of this team,” Hayes said in a statement. “We’re very much looking forward to spending this trip in California, which has produced so many players for the U.S. women’s national team and so many great moments in our history.” Hayes and her team will begin the new year in California, gathering for a training camp Jan. 15 to 21 at Dignity Health Sports Park.

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