If there’s one thing Aggies can do, it’s fill all 102,733 seats at Kyle Field for Texas A&M Football. Now Athletics Director Trev Alberts puts the challenge out to A&M and surrounding areas, Texas and beyond to break an attendance record for the upcoming Brazil vs. Mexico soccer match at Kyle Field June 8.
The game is part of a five-city U.S. tour, the MexTour, for the Mexican national men’s soccer team in advance of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The current MexTour attendance record of 90,526 was set in 2010 at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium against New Zealand.
In anticipation of the match at Texas A&M this summer, former international soccer players Emerson da Rosa from Brazil and Pavel Pardo from Mexico visited campus last week to tour Kyle Field and get to know Aggieland.
During their two-day stay in College Station, accompanied by ESPN soccer commentator and Texas A&M graduate Fernando Palomo, the players visited Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park on April 30 to watch Aggie Men’s Baseball and, while they were there, learned the meaning of “saw ‘em off.”
Pardo and da Rosa were joined by Alberts at a press conference at Kyle Field during their visit. The players were asked what they thought about the stadium — Kyle Field is the largest in Texas and one of the largest in the nation — as well as the campus as a whole. “We are like Aggies now,” Pardo joked. “Congratulations, because all the things you do [at Texas A&M], all the people, it’s amazing. …Part of the game, when you are there on the field, it’s like you say here: ‘the 12th Man.’ That’s very important. For me, when I step on the field with a crowded stadium, it’s amazing.”
Da Rosa was equally complimentary of A&M’s environment. “This place is really special,” he said. “Congratulations on the great structure and for the passion that runs through here. …We hope that Brazil will present itself very well here.”
Alberts thanked the players for their visit to campus and said, “We’re incredibly honored to get to host, this is a really big deal for us. …Kyle Field is a pretty special place, so if you’re going to do something on Kyle Field, it has to be pretty special, something like this.
“And by the way,” he added, “I like breaking records, so can we today announce that we want to break the MexTour attendance record? …This is an international university, we have impact across the globe…so this is a remarkable opportunity for us to participate, to continue growing the brand of Texas A&M as an institution and as an athletic department.”
Alberts and the players discussed their hopes to grow the popularity of soccer in the U.S., noting these types of events can stimulate greater interest in the sport. They noted MexTour games traditionally have fans from 30 different states who are buying tickets, in addition to many countries, so it’s a true international event.
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Media contact: Lesley Henton, lshenton@tamu.edu
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