In case you don’t follow soccer, you might not even be aware that next year’s World Cup is happening in the United States. Well, kind of — the event will be hosted between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with only one of those countries really, really caring about the sport.

Typically, when this happens, a country will offer up its capital to play host to some of the games. This poses a problem in the U.S. as 1) our capital kinda sucks, and 2) as FIFA explained earlier this week, it doesn’t have any stadiums where games could even be held.

According to the New York Times, the main reason the tournament is avoiding the capital is not because it’s a boring city filled with bad people. Instead, it’s because not a single stadium in the DMV was up to the task — and for the stadiums that were close, they did not want to put in the money to renovate to meet FIFA standards.

In the end, this is probably for the best, as hosting the World Cup isn’t exactly one big party. Still, it’s funny that they got their hopes up in the first place. Newsflash: if you want to host soccer matches, you need a place to play them!

I’ll never forget how much of a bummer that watch party was https://t.co/CzAesqL09dpic.twitter.com/z5qILPRRSN

— Between Clean Sheets | Cheyenne (@btwncleansheets) December 3, 2025