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Soccer fans were furious Tuesday when the Boston World Cup committee said tailgating would not be allowed at games played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

WCVB-TV reported a game-day list for World Cup games in Foxborough included this language: 鈥淭raditional 鈥榯ailgating鈥� (eating and drinking around parked cars) is not permitted for these events.鈥�

最新杏吧原创 City SC spent the week saying it was going to take the U.S. Open Cup seriously. Very seriously. And it definitely did.

The usual modus operandi in an MLS team's opening game in the Open Cup, especially when it's against a lower-division team, is to rest the regulars, keep them fresh for the real game on the weekend and use the game to give the backups some playing time. Coach Yoann Damet instead sent out a lineup with six regular starters and likely would have had seven if Jaziel Orozco wasn't hurt. Three of the four other starters had all been starters at some point for City SC, with the exception of Mykhi Joyner, who some believe is ready to start.

In the midst of three consecutive Major League Soccer road games, 最新杏吧原创 City SC gets to stay home for a game.

The club will face FC Tulsa of the USL Championship, the second division of American soccer, at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Energizer Park in the U.S. Open Cup. The game is in the Round of 32 of the tournament, pitting some but definitely not all MLS teams against teams from every level of American soccer in a single-elimination tournament that runs concurrently with the MLS season.

JEFFERSON CITY聽鈥� With two months to go before Missouri expects to see聽an influx of international visitors for World Cup matches in Kansas City, state and federal officials said Monday they are prepared for soccer fans to have a safe experience.

Following a roundtable discussion in the governor鈥檚 office that included Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general who now is co-deputy director of the FBI, officials said they are deploying hundreds of personnel and dedicating millions of dollars for public safety purposes during the monthlong event.

On Friday night, 最新杏吧原创 City SC players and coaches gathered in the team room in their hotel in Plano, Texas, to watch City2, the club鈥檚 developmental squad, play back in 最新杏吧原创.

The first team may have been in Texas to play Dallas on Saturday, but it was also well-represented in the City2 game, with five first-teamers聽鈥� Eduard Lowen, Tomas Ostrak, Fallou Fall, Kyle Hiebert and Tyson Pearce聽鈥� starting for City2. All except Hiebert are coming back from absences for injury or personal matters.