Burnley co-owner and NFL legend J.J. Watt’s Burnley squad will face former NFL punter and ESPN persona Pat McAfee’s Concafa SC staff within the first spherical of The Soccer Match, the 7-on-7, $1 million, winner-take-all occasion June 5-10.
The event will happen in Cary, North Carolina, and be broadcast by ESPN+.
– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, extra (U.S.)
The competitors brackets have been introduced Tuesday. TST’s males’s bracket splits up its 48 groups into 12 teams of 4 whereas within the girls’s brackets the eight groups are break up into two teams of 4.
The ladies’s event will compete for an equal $1 million, winner-take-all prize.
US Ladies, a staff led by former United States teammates Ali Krieger and Heather O’Reilly, will face off towards the Wrexham Purple Dragons at 8 p.m. on June 8. Wrexham will deliver a squad that features seven of their first-team gamers, most notably Rosie Hughes, who was featured on “Welcome to Wrexham.”
Kealia Watt’s Burnley aspect will tackle NC Braveness, a staff captained by Watt’s former Houston Sprint teammate and USWNT member Jessica McDonald. Formiga, essentially the most capped participant in Brazilian males’s or girls’s nationwide staff historical past, will lead new USL Tremendous League aspect Tampa Bay Solar FC into motion.
Former NFL participant Chad Johnson will return to the Nati SC staff for a second summer time after serving to signify FC Cincinnati’s alumni staff in final 12 months’s inaugural TST.
Bundesliga golf equipment Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will face off at 5 p.m. on Might 5.
The occasion makes use of a World Cup-style format and customized guidelines that require each recreation to finish on a purpose.
“We’re wanting ahead to a unprecedented occasion in Cary,” TST CEO Jon Mugar mentioned. “All of our video games finish in a recreation profitable purpose, which implies followers shall be handled to 118 recreation profitable targets over six days, together with one million greenback males’s purpose and million greenback girls’s purpose scored on Monday evening June 10.”
Full pairings comply with:
Group A: Agüero Crew, Nani FC, La Mexicana Categorical, Say Phrase FC
Group B: Burnley FC, The Concafa SC, Nati SC, Reggae Rovers
Group C: AU Vodka Swans, FitBodega Vancouver, Socceroof, Tobacco Highway FC
Group D: Inter, Banheristas FC, Gracie FC, La Bombanera
Group E: Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Dueling for Lincoln FC, The City FC
Group F: Wrexham Purple Dragons, Saturdays Soccer, FC Roha Eagles, Desimpedidos
Group G: Newtown Satisfaction FC, Zala, DC Hyper, Supra United
Group H: Sneaky Fox FC, Crew KwikGoal, Pasha FC, Tranquilo FC
Group I: Hashtag United, Manhattan Kickers, Raleigh Rebels, Summer time of Soccer
Group J: Villarreal CF, Como 1907, NCFC, Metropolis Soccer Society
Group Ok: Georgetown, Hoosier Military, Trident FC, Freedom United
Group L: Sire Seven, Kingdom FC, Tenfifteen FC, Toronto Athletic FC
Ladies’s bracket:
Group A: Angel Metropolis FC, US Ladies, Wrexham Purple Dragons, Streetball FC Canada
Group B: Burnley FC, NC Braveness, SoccerHead FC, Tampa Bay Solar FC
