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Los Angeles reimagines the ultimate fan experience as contender to be world sports capital - CITY OF ANGELS: Beyond its major league franchises and college sports scene, Jack Rathborn discovers how the City of Angels has emerged as a major sports destination ahead of Super Bowl 61 and the 2028 Olympic Games

The first thing you notice when you stroll towards your seat at the spaceship-like dome that is SoFi Stadium is the jaw-dropping ‘halo board’. Hovering above the pitch, this gigantic screen is both entertaining and informative as the Los Angeles Chargers glide and bounce across the turf throughout warm-ups. The $5.

5bn (£4bn) home, shared with fellow NFL team Los Angeles Rams, will host next year’s Super Bowl . And SoFi brings a unique visual experience to live games and even major cultural moments as Beyonce, Taylor Swift and more stop by during their world tours. It becomes apparent at SoFi and beyond, across the vast City of Angels, that this place elevates how fans consume sport, with options galore.

Across the very biggest cities in the United States, American sport brings a plethora of options to sport junkies, notably in the four major leagues: NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB, with LA boasting the juggernaut Dodgers after back-to-back World Series. Given the overlapping calendars of the sports and the reliable sunshine for more than 40 weeks of the year, sports fans have plenty of meaningful action to feast on. But even beyond the quintessential American experience, LA will host eight Fifa World Cup matches this summer.

The Chargers and Rams, buoyed by reigning MVP Matthew Stafford’s return next season, will hope to arrive at Super Bowl 61 and a chance at landing the Lombardi trophy at home. Then there are the Olympics , with LA28, the city’s third Games after 1932 and 1984, tying Paris, the last summer Games hosts, and London, both notably contenders for sporting supremacy worldwide. SoFi will be front and centre there, too, as it transforms into a swimming hub, catapulting a sport into a new era, with an expected spine-tingling atmosphere to roar on the Stars and Stripes in one of its strongest sports.

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