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Harder Stadium to Host U.S–Chile Soccer Match

The Women’s National Team will take center stage on the historically hallowed ground.

Harder Stadium to Host U.S–Chile Soccer Match

Next Tuesday, January 27, the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) will play a soccer match against Chile on historically hallowed ground.

UCSB’s Harder Stadium was the launch pad for the champions of the first Super Bowl and the first FIFA Women’s World Cup.

In 1967, the Green Bay Packers spent a week running drills on the unfrozen turf of UCSB’s recently built football stadium before decamping to Los Angeles, where they demolished the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I.

Michelle Akers (10) was a powerful striker for the U.S. national team in the exhibition at UCSB and the World Cup in China. | Credit: Courtesy