Houston (USA), May 6 (EFE) .- The fields of the BBVA Stadium, of the Houston Dynamo, and the Q2 Stadium, of the Austin FC, have been chosen as the venues for the friendly matches to be played by the women’s soccer team from the United States, next June, in preparation for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.
The United States, current world champion, will face its counterpart from Portugal on June 10 and three days later, on June 13, Jamaica at the BBVA Stadium, in what will be the first international competition to be held in Houston since 2020.
The Summer Series, in which the Nigerian national team also participates, with matches against Jamaica and Portugal, will be the last phase of the preparation of the four times world champions, who will travel to Tokyo with the aim of obtaining their fifth medal of gold, the first since the 2012 London Olympics.
After completing the matches in Houston, the United States and Nigeria teams will move to Austin, where on June 16, at Q2 Stadium, they will play the last game of the Summer Series.
The international competition organized by the BBVA Stadium will be the first international since the Concacaf Women’s Olympic Qualification Championship held in February 2020, a month before the coronavirus pandemic occurred.
The United States team won the regional qualification tournament to obtain a place in the Olympic Games and will compete in Group G, where they will face Sweden, on July 21, in Tokyo; to New Zealand on July 24 in Saitama and to Australia on July 27 in Kashima.
While the Q2 Stadium of Austin FC, the new franchise of the Professional Soccer League (MLS) of the United States, hosts its first inaugural with the women’s national team, as the team has not yet been able to play at home while the completion of the construction of the stadium.
Austin FC is scheduled to play its first MLS game at Q2 Stadium on June 19 against the San Jose Earthquakes, ending the eight-game streak that coach Josh Wolff is starting the season with.
The Q2 stadium includes 20,500 seats and is a state-of-the-art field with private financing of 260 million dollars.
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