Post by San José State University

Adriana Yesenia Arreola, ’22 Management, ’26 MBA, is one of a million — a million soccer fans who applied to volunteer at the FIFA World Cup 2026™ - Canada, Mexico and the United States this summer, and one of the 65,000 who secured a spot. Arreola volunteered with the media operations and services team during all six of the soccer matches at Levi's® Stadium. “When the first goal was scored and everyone jumped out of their seats screaming, I realized that we were experiencing all of the Bay Area — much of the world — coming together,” she says. “It’s the atmosphere that I love. Soccer brings people together; it brings families together. That was the most rewarding part.” Read more about her World Cup experience: https://ow.ly/GwUR50ZnsKX