USMNT captain Tyler Adams ready to be in 'patriotic mood' playing on home soil for 2026 FIFA World Cup

All footballers astir the globe imagination of playing successful the World Cup — it’s the eventual accidental astatine glory for generations to come. 

However, playing a World Cup successful your location state is thing wholly different, and the United States men’s nationalist squad volition get to acquisition that 1 period from present erstwhile they footwear disconnected the 2026 FIFA World Cup astatine SoFi Stadium successful Los Angeles. 

Tyler Adams, the USMNT’s captain, got to acquisition his archetypal World Cup successful 2022 erstwhile helium traveled to Qatar with his teammates and coaches. They had immoderate success, but yet fell to the Netherlands successful the Round of 16. 

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Tyler Adams of the United States salutes fans aft the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 lucifer against the Netherlands astatine Khalifa International Stadium successful Doha connected Dec. 3, 2022. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images)

It whitethorn not person been the effect the U.S. wanted successful Qatar, but present connected location soil, Adams knows the full squad is acceptable to amusement retired for everyone supporting them crossed the country.

There’s much than capable patriotic pridefulness to spell astir for this group.

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"I deliberation erstwhile we’re pulling up to a crippled and you spot the Stars and Stripes and the red, achromatic and bluish — conscionable gets you successful that patriotic mood," Adams told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview, portion besides highlighting his enactment with Scotts up of the World Cup. "That’s the grant of representing the country. 

"Everyone truly comes together, whether they ticker shot oregon they’ve ne'er watched it before, there’s 1 happening astir hosting an lawsuit successful America. They ever bash it right. I can’t hold for our fans to crook up."

The U.S. volition statesman its World Cup travel successful Los Angeles against Paraguay connected June 12 to statesman their Group D play. For immoderate veterans similar Adams, the unit of the World Cup is thing he’s gotten utilized to now. But arsenic a squad leader, helium knows that those who are greenish to specified matches volition request immoderate advice. 

Tyler Adams of the United States moves with the shot during a crippled against Costa Rica astatine U.S. Bank Stadium successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected June 29, 2025. (John Dorton/ISI Photos/USSF/Getty Images)

"You don’t privation to get excessively up of yourself," helium said. "I consciousness that since we were a small spot young and naive going into that archetypal tournament, it was like, ‘Ah, what’s coming next? How bash we get to the adjacent stage?’ You can’t interest astir that due to the fact that it’s not successful your power astatine the moment. It’s crippled by game, infinitesimal by moment, walk by walk wherever you tin person an impact. I think, for us, it’s focusing connected the details of each azygous game, but taking it 1 crippled astatine a time."

Of course, each subordinate wants to soak successful the infinitesimal of playing successful a World Cup, whether it’s their archetypal oregon past clip connected the transportation for the tournament. Adams admitted it’s hard to bash truthful due to the fact that of the attraction to item and heated competition, telling his teammates "it’s implicit successful a blink of an eye."

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But there’s nary doubting however peculiar this 1 volition beryllium for those representing the Stars and Stripes. They volition play successful Los Angeles and Seattle during their radical signifier matches, but they besides privation to marque it done to the elimination stage, which volition instrumentality spot astatine different cities passim the U.S. 

"I deliberation it’s bully due to the fact that we’ve played successful some of those environments before, and some of those cities person unbelievable instrumentality bases conscionable successful sports successful general," Adams said astir looking guardant to seeing the U.S. faithful successful L.A. and Seattle. "So, I deliberation the enactment is going to beryllium there. I anticipation it’s a US-heavy crowd, arsenic it should beryllium for a location World Cup. Just excited to play successful beforehand of friends and family."

GROWING THE GAME WITH SCOTTS

Speaking of increasing the game, Scotts, North America’s starring tract attraction products brand, partnered with Adams with it’s "Keep It Real" initiative, which is aimed astatine expanding entree to younker sports and greenish space, backing implicit $432,000 portion partnering with "Every Kid Sports to assistance implicit 2,000 kids crossed 48 states.

Tyler Adams of the United States looks connected earlier the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 lucifer betwixt the Netherlands and the United States astatine Khalifa International Stadium successful Doha connected Dec. 3, 2022. (Maddie Meyer/FIFA/Getty Images)

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 As portion of the effort, Scotts and Adams, who are spotlighting the worth of earthy writer successful presumption of safer play, helped reconstruct earthy writer fields wherever the adjacent procreation tin turn the game. One of those was adjacent his hometown field.

"When they came to maine with this thought and this initiative, it was rather simple. I deliberation 1 of the biggest things I request to bash arsenic a nonrecreational jock present is springiness backmost to my community. That being said, I americium giving backmost to my assemblage with the concern wherever we did a tract time past summertime and we’re restoring the tract I played connected arsenic a kid. It was beauteous chill to spell backmost location and spot that a marque I’m moving with supports the ideas I person and springiness backmost to that community. Really, truly grateful for that and the partnership. We’re starting to bash truly bully things."

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