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Amateur soccer team FC Denver will have chance to upset MLS, pro teams in US Open Cup

The best basketball player at the local community rec center will almost certainly never get a chance to go one-on-one against Steph Curry. There is no path for a local softball team to get a shot to play the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

But what if I told you that, for the best amateur team in Colorado soccer, there’s a path to glory that might take them up against world famous footballers? That a bunch of average joes might make a deep run in a tournament that gives them a shot to step on the field against a global superstar like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Marco Fabian or Wayne Rooney?