When the U.S. co-hosts the 2026 World Cup next summer, matches will span the whole of North America. From Los Angeles to Miami, Mexico City to Toronto, the stakes will be high, the stage the grandest—and vastest. A fact not lost on U.S. men’s national team playmaker Malik Tillman.
“Everything is huge [in the United States]. I mean, everything is just bigger,” the Bayer Leverkusen playmaker says. “If you look at the highway, sometimes you have eight lanes! And [in Germany] probably the max is four. So. yeah, it’s crazy ... it’s so special when I go there.”
