San Francisco Bay Area Stadium ya rufe kofar FIFA World Cup 2026, ya kammala jerin wasannan shida da nasara mai burge ta United States wanda ya sa masu sha'awa su yi murna — kuma ya bar alama ta dindindin a tarihin gasar.

Filin wasa, wanda yawanci gidan NFL ta San Francisco 49ers ne, ya sami matsakaicin masu kallo 68,558 a kowace wasa daga cikin wasannansa shida na Kofin Duniya, yana cike da kashi 99.6 cikin ɗari na ƙarfin sa a kowace dama. Adadin hakan ya nuna babban son ƙwallon ƙafa a yankin Bay Area.

Bankwana mai tsananin murna

United States ta rufe tafiyar filin wasa a gasar da nasara ta 2-0 kan Bosnia and Herzegovina a zagaye na 32. Folarin Balogun da Malik Tillman suka ci, yayin da masu sha'awa na gida suka ci gaba da biki tsawon lokaci bayan ƙarshen wasa — waƙar John Denver na Take Me Home, Country Roads ta amo a filin wasa har da daren.

Nasaran ta ba United States wasan zagaye na 16 da Belgium a Seattle, Washington a ranar 6 ga Yuli, amma ga San Francisco da yankin Bay Area, sashen gasar yanzu ya ƙare bayan kwana 19 na farin ciki wanda ya ƙunshi ƙungiyoyi goma na ƙasa daga yankuna biyar cikin shida na FIFA.

Bayanan tarihi, farkawa, da masu yin tarihi

Wasan farko na ranar 13 ga Yuni — duel din Rukuni B tsakanin Qatar da Switzerland — ya jawo masu kallo 67,966, kuma Shugaban FIFA Gianni Infantino ya kasance a filin wasa, wanda ya kwatanta yanayin da "filin wasa mai cikakke. Ya kasance kyakkyawa sosai." A filin, wasan da ya ƙare 1-1 ya sa Qatar ta sami maki nata na farko a tarihin FIFA World Cup, bayan golin kanta na Miro Muheim a cikin lokacin ƙari ya share bugun fenariti na Breel Embolo na rabi na farko.

Bayan kwana uku, Ostiriya ta fafata a FIFA World Cup na karo na farko cikin shekaru 28, tana doke Jordan 3-1 a gaban masu kallo 68,527. Ali Olwan ya shiga tarihi ta zama mai ci gol na farko na Jordan a FIFA World Cup.

A ranar 19 ga Yuni, a gaban filin wasa mai cike sosai, Paraguay ta doke Türkiye 1-0, golin Matías Galarza ya zo ne bayan daƙiƙa 64 kawai, saboda haka ya zama gol mafi sauri a wannan shekarar gasar. Tafiya da sojoji na masu sha'awa na Türkiye zuwa filin wasa kafin fara wasan ya ba da hoto mai ban sha'awa na sha'awar da ƙwallon ƙafa zai iya haifar da ita.

Bayan kwana uku, Algeria ta sake daga baya domin ta doke Jordan 2-1 a gaban masu kallo 68,371 — nasarar farko da ta yi ta dawowa daga baya a duk tarihin ta na FIFA World Cup.

Marhala na rukuni ta ƙare a filin wasa a ranar 25 ga Yuni da wasan da filin ya cika gaba ɗaya na biyu, inda Paraguay da Australia suka yi canjaras 0-0 a gaban masu kallo 68,827. Lucas Herrington, yana da shekaru 18 da kwana 293, ya zama ƙaramin ɗan wasa da ya fara wasan FIFA World Cup don Australia da kowane ƙungiya na AFC. Makiyar ta tabbatar da cancanta ta Australia don zagaye na 32 a matsayin na biyu a Rukuni D.

A ɗayan ɓangaren, Edin Džeko na Bosnia and Herzegovina, yana da shekaru 40 da kwana 106, ya zama tsofon dan wasan filin da ya fafata a matakin da ake fitar da masu asara na FIFA World Cup, yana wuce rikodin Pepe na Portugal — wanda yake da shekaru 39 da kwana 287 lokacin da ya fafata da Morocco a kusa da kusa na Qatar 2022.

Ko da yake ƙarshen wasan da aka yi a San Francisco Bay Area Stadium ya ƙare cikin takaici ga Džeko da abokan aikinsa, Bosnia and Herzegovina sun cimma nasara mai muhimmanci ta farko a tarihin su — sun kai matakin da ake fitar da masu asara na FIFA World Cup a karo na farko.

Wannan shi ne karo na biyu da Bay Area ta San Francisco ta karɓi wasanni na FIFA World Cup, bayan Stanford Stadium a 1994. Ga wannan sabon filin wasa da sabuwar ƙarni na masu sha'awa, zuwan na duniya zai kasance a ƙwaƙwalwa tsawon lokaci.