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(06-01-2017 07:30 AM)The T-Shirt Wrote:  Last year I thought it was kind of cool that an EPL team came to Nippert. But I'm honestly more excited for an MLS team to waltz into Nippert. Not only because I think FCC at least has a chance, but because I have an actual connection to the team coming in. I don't give a sh!t if Real Madrid or that big Paris club, or Man U, or Bayern Munich, or some small English burrough with an EPL team visits us, those teams are nothing more than big names from other countries.

Columbus Crew is, I believe, an original MLS member and only two hours away. They're threatened by FCC, if only just slightly. You can see it in their sudden shift in marketing. They went from selling the team as Columbus' team, to calling themselves Ohios MLS team this last offseason. They ignored the rest of the state for twenty plus years, NOW they wanna claim the state? They didn't want to come here, they don't want to acknowledge FCC, but now they're forced to. Through level of talent alone even with their backups, the Crew should win, but like I said in another post is that this match simply happening at all is a win for FCC.

The big international friendly later in the year will be fun and all, but this upcoming match against the local MLS team has some weight and serious excitement behind it. Sure, it won't really mean much even if FCC wins. Just bragging rights, nothing else really changes. But even still, I can't freaking wait.

As a casual fan I see playing the MLS team that's only 100 miles away in a tournament game as far more exciting than playing a middle of the pack European team in a friendly; and the Crystal Palace game is the only game I've been to. I definitely plan on going in a couple weeks but if it were any other MLS team it would be less exciting.