RALEIGH, N.C. — It’s been 12 years since the North Carolina Triangle hosted two massive foreign soccer teams for a stateside exhibition, and in terms of star power, it’ll be hard to ever top a megaclub like Chelsea and (Welcome to) Wrexham when they turn up at Kenan Stadium on Wednesday.
It would be nice if we get the chance again.
There are several reasons why a soccer-crazy area like this often gets overlooked on these money-spinning summer tours, but the lack of a facility capable of holding the kind of crowd these often attract is the biggest one. This contract is a one-off with UNC, but if it goes well — and it’s always a bit of a gamble laying down a temporary sod field over another surface, something the Tar Heels found out to their dismay in the Holiday Bowl — it’s something the school would like to pursue again in the future.
