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?