Tonight, the USA and Mexico square off in the Rose Bowl to determine which nation’s soccer team will travel to Russia for a sneak peak at their World Cup facilities and a chance to win the Confederation’s Cup.

HOT TICKET: You can bet that every one of the 92,000-plus seats in Pasadena’s august arena will be filled, with the game having been pronounced a sellout well in advance; tickets on secondary market Web sites are reaching many times face value. To underline that point, one El Tri fan’s emotional reaction to a gift of tickets has gone viral on social media. Security will be tight, given that these teams’ last meeting at the Rose Bowl, a 4-2 Mexico win in the 2011 Gold Cup final, was marred by incidents of violence and conflict in the dominantly pro-El Tri crowd. CONCACAF has gone to some lengths to create a peaceful and balanced affair: Each federation received 30 percent of the total ticket allocation and Mexican fans are being clustered in the north end of the bowl, opposite US partisans in the south end.

It’s not like people are blowing up peace protestors but it’s sad that fans have to be “clustered” into one part of the stadium in order to segregate the crowd and lessen the potential for violence.

Nonetheless, this is going to be top quality entertainment and better than anything College Football has to offer tonight.

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