BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore-based sports institution Under Armour has joined 15 different bid partners successful the city’s run to beryllium a big metropolis for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
“We’re thrilled to invited Under Armour arsenic a spouse to the Baltimore-Maryland 2026 Host City Bid,” Terrance Hasseltine, President of Baltimore-Maryland 2026 and Executive Director of Maryland Sports Commission, said. “This is simply a large milestone and I’m definite our concern with Under Armour volition supply our bid with unrivaled penetration and expertise and reenforce the spot of our concept.”
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FIFA is considering 17 cities successful the U.S. to big the matches successful 2026. Representatives from FIFA volition beryllium successful Baltimore betwixt September and November. Once they wrapper up their tract visit, a determination time volition beryllium made adjacent year.
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“Baltimore is Under Armour’s location and we’re incredibly excited and arrogant to beryllium supporting the efforts of Baltimore-Maryland’s bid to big FIFA 2026 World Cup matches. We judge successful the transformational powerfulness of sports for communities,” said Stacey Ullrich, Senior Director, Global Community Impact astatine Under Armour. “Creating impactful legacies and utilizing the level of shot to alteration communities crossed our location metropolis and authorities is an unmissable accidental and a origin we are afloat committed to.”
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Any interest if Baltimore is simply a shot town? Baltimore ranked #1 oregon #2 successful spectator markets arsenic it pertains to the wide viewership of some the men and women’s World Cup games.