When Bobby Muuss, head coach of the Wake Forest men’s soccer team, drove to work Monday morning, he passed by Campus Gas, a historic gas-station-turned-bar-and-grill just off campus. Business was booming and a line wrapped around the building, but it wasn’t a new menu item or the award-winning cider that drew crowds: It was merchandise for the German men’s soccer team.
Over the course of the next month, the German team will practice at the university’s soccer stadium, train in its adjacent training facilities; and stay overnight at the nearby Graylyn Estate—a university-owned luxury hotel—as they prepare to compete in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to a Wake Forest news release. Meanwhile, more than 100 correspondents from German media outlets will work from the university’s business school and a nearby dining hall.
Wake Forest’s Demon Deacons and residents of the surrounding Winston Salem community in North Carolina aren’t the only ones serving as hosts this summer. From now until July 19, at least 11 other colleges across the country are also hosting World Cup teams. Games begin Thursday.
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