This city has always loved its soccer, despite what the skeptics said in Atlanta United’s early days. We just never had a team to get behind. Until now.
Evidence of soccer’s footprint in this town has always been there, but now thanks to United it has been magnified 100 times.
If you look into The Gulch, it is apparent. One of the founders of Soccer in the Street carries the Golden Spike. A wing-eating contest is a prelude to a jersey auction benefiting the Fugees Family.