Skip The Host Cities: This Is Where You Can Meet Your Favorite World Cup Stars This Summer

Skip The Host Cities: This Is Where You Can Meet Your Favorite World Cup Stars This Summer anchors a travel-focused guide to watching the tournament beyond ticketed matches. The piece notes that 48 teams will participate, the most ever, with 39 based in the United States, seven in Mexico and two in Canada. Training sites are largely college campuses, selected to provide top facilities while ensuring no two teams share a ground to maintain competitive separation. Iran will train in Tijuana, Mexico, despite all group games being played in the United States. The article then breaks down sites by region, highlighting roughly 48 locations and the practicality of viewing sessions near home or along travel plans, with security and logistics shaping the distribution across the three host countries.