The first thing you need to know about the nine World Cup matches scheduled to take place in Dallas—starting with a sneaky-good June 14 group-stage face-off between the Netherlands and Japan and concluding with one of two semifinals on July 14—is that, in a meaningful way, they do not take place in Dallas. AT&T Stadium, the “Dallas” World Cup host venue, is part of a sprawling sports and entertainment complex in the city of Arlington, about halfway between downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth. The vast Metroplex, with its dozens of independent cities and confusing-even-to-locals network of freeways and tollways and express lanes, can be a fiendishly difficult place in which to orient yourself. Drive around looking for something interesting, and you might well end…The post A Guide to Dallas* for Confused World Cup Visitors appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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