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Soccerfest brings World Cup to Atlanta area

By Mark Niesse
June 18, 2014

An event billed as “the largest World Cup viewing party in the Southeast” will be held Sunday at Brookhaven Park, where visitors can watch soccer on an 11-by-17 foot screen.

Atlanta Soccerfest includes a 5k race, games, soccer clinics, food trucks and viewing of the day’s World Cup games, including the United States vs. Portugal match at 6 p.m.

Visit www.atlantasoccerfest.org for more information.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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