\n David Beckham wore a white Stetson while visiting North Texas for Dallas Stadium\u2019s final 2026 World Cup match | Image by David Beckham\/Instagram. <\/p>\n
David Beckham arrived in North Texas for Dallas Stadium\u2019s final 2026 World Cup match and wasted little time embracing the local dress code.<\/p>\n
The retired England captain posted an Instagram<\/a> selfie Tuesday wearing a wide-brimmed white Stetson with a dark suit and tie. Beckham thanked Stetson for the hat and asked actor Cole Hauser, who plays ranch foreman Rip Wheeler on Yellowstone, how he looked.<\/p>\n \u201cHaha! Looking like Texas gangster. Enjoy!\u201d Hauser replied.<\/p>\n Victoria Beckham joined her husband and three of their children, Romeo, Cruz and Harper, for the trip. The family met the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders<\/a> at the stadium and watched the squad rehearse its \u201cThunderstruck\u201d routine. Victoria posed with a pom-pom and jokingly asked, \u201cDid I make the squad?\u201d<\/p>\n The Beckhams later watched Spain defeat France 2-0 in the July 14 semifinal, sending Spain to its first World Cup final since winning the tournament in 2010.<\/p>\n England\u2019s tournament ended Wednesday when Argentina rallied for a 2-1 semifinal victory<\/a> in Atlanta. Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez tied the match in the 85th minute before Lautaro Mart\u00ednez scored the winner in second-half stoppage time, setting up a Spain-Argentina final.<\/p>\n Following in Haaland\u2019s bootsteps<\/p>\n Beckham\u2019s cowboy turn continued a pattern that followed international players and fans throughout North Texas this summer.<\/p>\n As previously reported<\/a> by The Dallas Express, Norway striker Erling Haaland went all in on Western wear during his team\u2019s run through the tournament. Haaland visited Wild Bill\u2019s Western Store in Downtown Dallas and left with hats, boots and a customized belt buckle.<\/p>\n He also swapped into a shirt reading \u201cY\u2019all can kiss my Dallas\u201d and praised the city\u2019s hospitality.<\/p>\n \u201cDallas is amazing, unbelievable. It\u2019s so nice. I\u2019m coming back here, I\u2019ll tell you what,\u201d Haaland said in a video documenting the visit.<\/p>\n Other World Cup travelers left their own mark. Dutch supporters brought a double-decker bus from the Netherlands to Texas before driving it from Galveston to North Texas. English fans turned Fort Worth rodeos into \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d singalongs, while Japanese<\/a> supporters stayed behind after their match against the Netherlands to clean their section.<\/p>\n Dallas kept turning soccer stars into cowboys for the day, and Beckham became one of the final names added to the list.<\/p>\n Nine matches and plenty of history<\/p>\n As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Spain\u2019s victory closed Dallas Stadium\u2019s nine-match World Cup run<\/a>, which included five group-stage games and four knockout fixtures. The Arlington venue hosted more matches than any other stadium in the tournament.<\/p>\n The run featured Lionel Messi breaking the men\u2019s World Cup career scoring record, Norway eliminating Ivory Coast, Egypt advancing on penalties and Spain defeating Portugal before returning eight days later to beat France.<\/p>\n FIFA also installed black curtains<\/a> along the stadium\u2019s west-facing windows for the Japan-Sweden match, addressing the sunlight glare that has affected Dallas Cowboys games for years.<\/p>\n Nine matches brought nine different crowds, but the local experience extended far beyond what happened on the field. The cowboy hats, rodeos, barbecue stops and traveling fan traditions became part of North Texas\u2019 World Cup story.<\/p>\n AT&T Stadium gets its name back<\/p>\n The final whistle also started the stadium\u2019s transition from FIFA mode back to Cowboys mode.<\/p>\n AT&T Stadium operated as Dallas Stadium during the tournament under FIFA\u2019s sponsorship rules. Organizers covered corporate signage, installed a temporary natural-grass field above the Cowboys\u2019 artificial turf and transformed the building for international soccer.<\/p>\n Crews began removing FIFA branding and dismantling the temporary grass<\/a> surface after the semifinal as the venue prepared for concerts and the upcoming football season.<\/p>\n A promotional video<\/a> reposted by Law Nation Sports showed the stadium\u2019s AT&T lettering being uncovered before Cowboys owner Jerry Jones looked into the camera.<\/p>\n \u201cFootball is back,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n Between Beckham\u2019s white Stetson, Haaland\u2019s Western shopping spree and Jerry Jones reclaiming his stadium, Dallas ended its World Cup run with one foot in international soccer and the other planted firmly in Texas.<\/p>\n The World Cup concludes Sunday, July 19, when defending champion Argentina faces Spain in the final<\/a> at New York New Jersey Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.<\/p>\n