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U.S. Soccer confirms friendly against Brazil in September

The United States will host Brazil in a friendly in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Sept. 8, U.S. Soccer confirmed on Thursday.

The game is set for 8 p.m. at Gillette Stadium and will be televised by ESPN. Tickets go on sale July 31.

The Boston Globe had reported the scheduling of the match two weeks earlier.

The U.S. will be coming off a friendly against Peru set for Sept. 4 at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.

The two games could see the return to the U.S. squad of first-choice goalkeeper Tim Howard, who is targeting a September return after taking a year away from national team duty.

The Americans will return to the New England Revolution's Gillette Stadium for the second time in two months after not playing at the venue since 2011. They defeated Haiti there in the CONCACAF Gold Cup last week.

Brazil's cancelled this week a match set for Sept. 5 in San Francisco as part of the fallout from the investigation into alleged corruption involving FIFA.

Brazil has played in Foxborough three times since 2007, but never against the the U.S.

The game will be the 18th meeting between the teams and the fifth since 2009. Brazil has won 16 of the previous contests, only losing to the U.S. once, in the 1998 Gold Cup.

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