Charlotte FC, the Queen City’s plucky Major League Soccer team, seemed determined to do a lot of things for the Year 2 season opener exactly like it did for the first-ever home game in Year 1.
On Saturday night, Charlotte FC again had a monstrously impressive crowd — the fans were 69,345 strong this time, which was only about 5,000 fewer than the first-ever game that set an MLS record in 2022. Charlotte also brought back the very same national anthem singer who had inadvertently started a beloved tradition the year before when her microphone went out and the crowd did a spontaneous singalong.