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SALT LAKE CITY—The Mexican men's national team announced Tuesday that it will play an international friendly against Switzerland on Saturday, June 7, at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah.
The meeting marks the first soccer exhibition at Rice-Eccles Stadium since Real Salt Lake moved to then-Rio Tinto Stadium in the fall of 2008.
The Utes' football stadium became a temporary soccer stadium as the home of RSL from 2005-08, peaking with a match against the MLS club's namesake, Real Madrid, in front of 45,511 fans on Aug. 12, 2006. The team broke ground on Rio Tinto Stadium the same day and moved into the Sandy stadium on Oct. 9, 2008.
The international friendly against Switzerland will be Mexico's first match at Rice-Eccles Stadium but its second in Utah after playing Trinidad and Tobago at Rio Tinto Stadium in 2015.
Mexico travels to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, three days later for a friendly against Türkiye to be played at another college football venue in Kenan Stadium on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
Both matches are part of the national team's "2025 MexTour" in preparation for the CONCACAF Gold Cup beginning on June 14 in the U.S. and Canada.
Tickets for the Mexico matches go on sale Monday, March 10, at 10 a.m. MDT.
