Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For the 1994 World Cup, the United States wanted to do something no tournament had ever done before: host a FIFA World Cup match indoors at the Pontiac Silverdome. But there was one major problem—World Cup games couldn’t be played on artificial turf. That meant transforming a dark, indoor stadium into a place where real grass could survive, forcing a young turf scientist into one of the strangest and most ambitious experiments in soccer history.

About Soccer's American Dream:
How the gamble that brought professional soccer to America almost didn’t pay off - from the messy beginnings of both the men’s and women’s pro game to the Messi era we’re in today, as the world’s biggest tournament rolls back into town.

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