Soccer’s true charm lies not in the grind of league competition, but in cup matchups such as Tuesday night’s tasty affair between a top-flight team (D.C. United) and a band of brothers with amateur status and big hearts (Baltimore’s Christos FC).
Full professionals squared off against a loan officer, a plumber, an x-ray technician and a sales rep in a pastoral little stadium shadowed by a barn and surrounded by endless rows of youth fields.
