It’s official: Slovenia will starts preparations for Euro 2024 across the pond, Matjaž Kek will take those who are free with him
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As we reported a few days ago, the Slovenian national team will start preparations for Euro 2024 in the USA, which was also officially confirmed to the general public today by Football Association of Slovenia.
On 20 January 2024, the Slovenian national football team will play a preparatory match against the US national team at Toyota Field in San Antonio, a stadium with a modest capacity of 8296 spectators. The match will be a great opportunity for the Slovenian national team to prepare for the year in which they will play again after 24 years in the championship of the best selected teams of the Old Continent.
Slovenia and the USA have played each other twice so far, with the most memorable match probably taking place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa when Slovenia scored two Valterja Birsa and Zlatan Ljubijankić The Americans managed to tie the game up at 2:0, which was also enough to overtake Slovenia in the knockout rounds of the championship after the last round.
The second match, the only one of the preliminary rounds so far, was better played by the visitors, who won 3:2 in Stožice.
Slovenia will play in the United States for the first time, and the US Soccer Federation has chosen San Antonio, Texas, as the venue. As the match will not be played on an official FIFA date, selector Matjaž Kek will have players available for the San Antonio match who will have a winter break in January.
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Author: editorial Football Planet