— The United States Men’s National Team won’t compete in the FIFA World Cup this year, but their 2018 season is gradually being thrown into sharper relief. And their next stop is a tad unexpected.

The USMNT will face Paraguay in a friendly on Tuesday, March 27 at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. The USMNT is currently 25 in the FIFA Men’s World Rankings, while Paraguay in ranked 31. Paraguay also failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The March friendly will be only the second time the USMNT has played a match in the Triangle, the first also in Cary at the then-named SAS Soccer Park against Jamaica in April 2006. Indeed, with a seating capacity of approximately 10,000, WakeMed Soccer Park is the smallest American-based stadium to host a USMNT match since the 2006 friendly in Cary.

This will be the second time WakeMed Soccer Park has hosted a U.S. national soccer team match in a span of just over five months. The U.S. Women’s National Team played a friendly against South Korea on Oct. 19.

Delegates to last weekend’s U.S Soccer Annual General Meeting in Orlando, Fla. were informed that the next meeting of the USSF Board of Directors would take place at the site of the March 27 USMNT friendly, today announced as Cary.

It will be the board’s first official meeting since last Saturday’s election of new USSF President Carlo Cordeiro, who assumes the reins from outgoing president Sunil Gulati. North Carolina FC and NC Courage owner Steve Malik is a member of the USSF Board of Directors.