Spain trains in Chattanooga as World Cup preparations continue
Yahoo Sports • 1 min read • Latest: Jun 15, 2026, 4:35 AM
Last updated Jun 15, 2026
Spain's national soccer team is training at a boarding school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as part of its World Cup base camp. The team arrived amid enthusiastic local support, with many attending practice sessions. Iraq is based in West Virginia while Germany trains in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Local venues have adapted to welcome these teams, fostering community engagement around the tournament.
- •Spain trains at Baylor School in Chattanooga, selected for its soccer facilities.
- •Local support is evident, with 25,000 entering a lottery for 1,000 practice tickets.
- •Iraq's training camp is at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.
- •Germany's practice tickets in Winston-Salem sold out in minutes.
- •Spain's choice to train in Chattanooga emphasizes the city's growth in soccer culture.
- 4:35 AMYahoo Sports — Spain at a Tennessee boarding school, Iraq in a rural West Virginia town: Where World Cup teams live
"In the shadow of Tennessee’s Signal and Lookout mountains, 8-year-old Beckham balanced on a fence for more than three hours, gripping a handwritten note and waiting for Spain’s national team to emerge. “I love you and I look up to you,” the note addressed to Pedri and Lamine Yamal read. The scene was equally incredible to his father, Jaxon McClure, a Marine Corps veteran who grew up in Chattanooga playing soccer with trash cans for goalposts, now coaches hundreds of local children and named his first child after one of the sport’s greatest stars, David Beckham.
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