It does not take much to get people to become fans of the Union, just a little passion, some knowledge of the game, and loud fans that know how to have a good time. When I have brought casual fans of soccer down to the games, many decided they wanted to get tickets for next year. Now I was on to my second step, turning the people who may have watched a World Cup game, some by accident, into the casual fan.
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Here are the registration events for the upcoming tailgates. Obviously, the Chivas friendly needs a quick turn around as far as attendance numbers but the good news is, it’s FREE!!!
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It was Sun, Jan 3rd, and I had just spent my last ounce of hung-over energy in relocating myself from my couch to my desk and fired-up my laptop. Naturally, the first thing I did was to start trying to gather any news that the New Year brought regarding the Philadelphia Union. In the course of my browsing, I ended up on SonsofBen.com where I proceeded to read the Code of Conduct and information about joining probably at least 100 times. No matter how many times I read it and how much I wanted to follow through, my attention kept shifting focus to an article that I had just opened; the subject of the article: MLS Collective Bargaining Agreement Meetings, the outlook: bleak.
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Photo Credit: Dan Gorman (via Flickr)
I often sit down to think about what I just watched and how I can make it better. In today’s time, news and information is so readily available, that by the time you read it, it is out of date. Why do I write this, because relevance is important to me as it should be to everyone. My pledge to you, the readers, is that I will try to keep my posts relevant.
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The team’s supporters group keeps things rocking at PPL Park during Saturday’s 1-1 tie with the Rapids
CHESTER, Pa. — The boom-and-thud cadence of a continuous drumbeat has to be one of the coolest sounds in general. At a soccer match, such a soundtrack makes everything seem even more tribal. It’s as if, by noise, you’re calling the group together through a primal medium. [..]