United States
- Like Spain, Germany or Italy, the US soccer team has no dedicated stadium or arena. They play at different venues throughout the country for exhibition or tournament purposes. However, 21 games have been held on RFK Stadium in the country's capital, Washington, D.C., more than any other venue in the country, which led to suggestions that RFK Memorial should be their national stadium. The women's soccer team also has no dedicated venue.
Note that in the United States, national team matches occupy a relatively minor place in the overall sports landscape, with the exception of the Olympic basketball and ice hockey tournaments and the World Cups in men's and women's soccer. Media and fan attention focuses mainly on the country's major professional leagues and on college sports. Currently-active venues that are frequently used for national championships include:
- Fenway Park (baseball), the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball, which was used for 10 World Series as of 2007.
- The Home Depot Center (soccer), which hosted the most MLS Cups (5 as of 2012).
- Mercedes-Benz Superdome (American football, basketball), which has hosted the most Super Bowls (7 as of 2013) and NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships (5 as of 2012); also hosts the BCS National Championship Game every four years.
- Staples Center (basketball), which has been used for the most NBA Finals (7 as of 2010).
Read more about this topic: National Stadiums
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“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
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—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,
And of Priapus in the shrubbery
Gaping at the lady in the swing.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The Federated Republic of Europe—the United States of Europe—that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)