Mother and daughter live out shared love of football as FIFA World Cup 2026 volunteers

For Mandii and Terry Pratt, volunteering has never been about the hours logged or the tasks completed. It is about family, community, and a shared love of the game that has bound this mother-daughter duo together with football for close to 20 years. “We say all the time that we’re partners in crime,” said Mandii. “If one of us wants to do something, the other one is like, ‘OK, let’s go’. Going back, I would say 20 years or so now, we’ve both really enjoyed soccer.” That instinct to say yes to each other has taken them all over the volunteering world, from youth football to Philadelphia Union matchdays, and now to the FIFA World Cup 2026™, where they are volunteering together in their home city. Terry, who raised her children as a single mother, says the habit of throwing herself into whatever her kids loved eventually became a passion in its own right. “Whatever they wanted to do, I took an interest in, even if I didn’t like it, just to do it with them,” she said. “But little by little I ended up liking what they liked, because it’s contagious.”