If you’re a New York City FC fan, you’re enjoying this day. I get it. It’s the moment you waited for: That first, hard-won trophy. A balm for years of frustration, of coming close but no closer. A prize made all the sweeter for being, frankly, unexpected. Made more glorious by winning it before your arch-rivals across the Hudson.
Let us focus, instead, on what happened this season. Which is this: NYCFC is the textbook example of what a championship-caliber MLS 3.0 team looks like.
They won Saturday, and while that matters what is more important is that this is the beginning, not the end.