Tonight, for just about everyone in American soccer, D.C. United is the villain. The US Open Cup usually has a lower-division Cinderella team, but it’s exceedingly rare that we’re talking about a true amateur team like Christos FC facing an MLS side. Even NPSL or PDL teams at least have training sessions; Christos, famously, can’t arrange them due to day job commitments.
Funnily enough, it has taken a pairing against an amateur team to push the Soccerplex to the brink of a sell out. CSN and NBC 4 are not running stories on this game if it’s D.