ATLANTA – The U.S. Soccer Federation has chosen Fayette County as the site of a first-of-its-kind national training center (NTC), a project that will create 440 jobs through a $228 million investment.
The organization announced in September plans to move its headquarters from Chicago to Atlanta and build the first-ever NTC in the metro area.
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