The German Men\u2019s National soccer Team has chosen Winston-Salem as its home base for this year\u2019s FIFA World Cup. This summer, after months of negotiations dating back to March of 2025, the four-time World Cup champions will move into their new headquarters: Graylyn Estate. <\/p>\n
Five minutes north is Wake Forest University\u2019s W. Dennie Spry Soccer Stadium, where they\u2019ll train. Senior Associate Athletic Director for Projects and Operations Craig Zakrzewski says both facilities and their close proximity sealed the deal for the German squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019s looking forward to seeing the German National Team\u2019s passionate fanbase in the Triad.<\/p>\n
“It shows that this area has a reputation as somewhere that, you know, is growing and capable of hosting elite, international programs like we’re going to do this summer. And we’re planning for the hundreds of media that are going to travel, and just the number of fans globally that this team has. And they\u2019re going to want to stay near where the team is staying.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zakrzewski says there are community events in the works, with more information available in the coming months. The 2026 FIFA World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19 across North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Men\u2019s National soccer Team has chosen Winston-Salem as its home base for this year\u2019s FIFA World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-399778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}