Team Exhibition Match

The men’s national soccer team is coming to San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in May to play an exhibition game as part of a send-off series before the team heads to the World Cup in Brazil this summer, team officials announced Thursday.

Even though the team has only played once before in San Francisco, hosting Japan in an exhibition match at AT&T Park in 2006.

“We have some fantastic opponents that will help us get prepared for the teams we will meet in the World Cup, and also the opportunity to experience different climates and conditions in the venues,” U.S.

Also, the team will head to Brazil, where it will face Ghana, Portugal and Germany in round-robin play to start the World Cup in mid-June.