USMNT gets big welcome as World Cup base camp opens in Southern California (original) (raw)

Great Park opened in 2007 on the site of Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, which was decommissioned in 1999 after 56 years of training pilots and other military operations. From above, portions of the runways are still visible. President Richard Nixon flew in and out of here when visiting the western White House in nearby San...read full story

"You want to feel like you have a good home base, a place you [don't] have to worry about all the little details off the field,"