While growing up in Woodbury, Minnesota United defenders Brent Kallman and Eric Miller both had front row seats to watch the booming growth of professional soccer in Minnesota over the last decade or so. Now they get to star in one of its culminating moments in front of a record-breaking crowd on Sunday against LA Galaxy.
MNUFC is expecting more than 50,000 fans for its final game at TCF Bank Stadium, which will break a state soccer attendance record that has stood for more than 40 years — when 49,572 people came to watch the Minnesota Kicks beat San Jose Earthquakes for the NASL Conference Championship in 1976.