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Lamar Hunt's Legacy: World Cup Adventures with Sons Clark and Dan, and the Foundation of US Soccer
Clark and Dan Hunt recall their father’s push to build U.S. soccer, which helped launch Major League Soccer and bring World Cup matches to family venues.
- The Hunt family reflected on Lamar Hunt's soccer legacy as the U.S. hosted World Cup matches on May 27, 2026, with Kansas City hosting six matches including a quarterfinal at Arrowhead Stadium, his favorite place in the world.
- Lamar Hunt's passion for soccer began in the 1950s when American soccer was fledgling; after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean and witnessing European football with his future wife Norma at a Shamrock Rovers match, he became determined to bring the sport home.
- For nearly two decades, Hunt's NASL investment attracted global stars including Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Carlos Alberto to North America; when FIFA required a domestic league for the 1994 World Cup, Hunt leveraged that experience to help establish Major League Soccer.
- Dan Hunt said hosting World Cup matches represents "one of the final pegs of fulfilling dads legacy," while Clark Hunt reflected he will think during the matches about how excited his father would be to see the World Cup at Arrowhead Stadium.
- The Hunt sons' World Cup involvement spans generations: Clark attended his first in 1978 while Dan's came in Mexico in 1986, and now some 32 years later they serve as organizers for matches in Kansas City and Dallas respectively.
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Lamar Hunt's legacy: World Cup adventures with sons Clark and Dan, and the foundation of US soccer
The late businessman Lamar Hunt was instrumental in bringing professional soccer to the U.S., founding the North American Soccer League and later Major League Soccer. He played a key role
The most enduring memories that Clark and Dan Hunt share of their father, sports mogul Lamar Hunt, have less to do with all the World Cup matches they saw together and more with the long, strange and often winding paths they took to reach these.
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