Overview
- Les Éléphants will train at Subaru Park and the WSFS Bank Sportsplex, a 170,000-square-foot complex with seven outdoor fields, six locker rooms, a two-story weight room and a full-size indoor field.
- Group E schedule places Ivory Coast in Philadelphia on June 14 vs. Ecuador and June 25 vs. Curaçao, with a June 20 match against Germany in Toronto.
- Union president Tim McDermott called hosting Côte d’Ivoire a tremendous honor and pointed to the campus as among MLS’s best-equipped facilities.
- FIFA listed the Union site as the only base camp offered in the Philadelphia area, with the Stockton University option in Atlantic City reported as unclaimed.
- Organizers say the selection should engage the region’s African diaspora and provide a lift for tourism and hospitality.