We don’t have a national soccer stadium, and because of our country’s size and diversity, frankly we don’t need one. The pulse of the sport, performed at the highest levels, reverberates across time zones, from the South Ward at Red Bull Arena to The Cauldron in Kansas City and to the madhouses in the Pacific Northwest.
To designate one plot of emerald-green grass and tight white lines for our biggest matches marginalizes the rest of a rich soccer nation.
American soccer, however, has had an unofficial home for decades — and we didn’t need to stage every national team match and MLS Cup there to prove it.