The U.S. soccer team decided to spend two nights at Ramstein Air Base because of safety concerns with the designated FIFA hotels in the Kaiserslautern area.

The Americans traveled from their base hotel in Hamburg on Thursday, flying on a charter direct to Ramstein, where about 50,000 U.S. military, civilians and their families are based.

"I think our primary concern was security as a starting point," U.S. coach Bruce Arena said.

FIFA has designated two team hotels in or near each host city. For Kaiserslautern, they are the Steigenberger and the Dorint Sofitel.

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