73,019 people filed into Mercedes-Benz Stadium to watch Atlanta United win the first major sports championship in Atlanta since 1995. As far as we can tell, Smyrna’s Nick DiLuzio is the only attendee whose wife went into labor during the game.
“She texted me when she got to the hospital and when she got into triage,” DiLuzio told Dirty South Soccer. “By that point we were well into the second half of the game and it was getting more and more apparent that we were going to win this thing. And I...really really didn’t want to leave.