The World Cup is coming to the United States for the first time since 1994, and Los Angeles got one of the anchor venues. The FIFA Fan Festival opens at the Memorial Coliseum on June 11th, 2026 — free to enter — and it is the public face of a tournament that has been building toward this moment for thirty-two years. The Fan Festival is what the World Cup looks like from the outside: giant screens broadcasting every match, fan zones organized by country, food and culture from the nations competing, and the particular atmosphere of tens of thousands of people who are all in it together even if their …