AD hopes Mexico-Brazil Kyle Field soccer game sets record [Video]

Trev Alberts likes setting records, and the Texas A&M athletic director has his eyes set on breaking another one in June: the Mexican men’s team’s largest attendance for a match played in the United States.

The previous record was 90,526 set in 2010 against New Zealand at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. A&M’s Kyle Field has the space to break that mark with an official capacity of 102,733. Game organizers said Wednesday that around 50,000 tickets have already been sold for the international exhibition on June 8 that serves as a precursor to this summer’s Copa America tournament.

“Kyle Field is a pretty special place, so if you’re going to do something on Kyle Field it’s got to be pretty special,” Alberts said.

Alberts joined former Mexican and Brazilian soccer stars Pavel Pardo and Emerson de Rosa, respectively, for a press conference inside Kyle Field on Wednesday morning to …