How Rep. Rick Larsen helped Seattle secure its 2026 World Cup bid
Rick Larsen acknowledges that he’s not the one responsible for Seattle being selected as a host city for the 2026 men’s World Cup soccer extravaganza.
“As the saying goes, success has many parents and failure is an orphan,” Larsen said during a phone conversation last week. “I’m probably a third uncle five times removed in this process.”
Nevertheless, in his own small way Larsen, Everett’s 11-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, played a role in bringing the World Cup to the Puget Sound.
When international soccer’s governing body FIFA announced on June 16 that Seattle’s Lumen Field would serve as one of the 16 match sites for the 2026 World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada, it was lauded across the region. Soccer fans, sports radio jockeys and civic leaders alike celebrated the world’s biggest sporting event coming to town.
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Damn proud of him
