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To the surprise of no one, Orlando City announced it has sold out the season-opening match against NYCFC. In a game that will be a curtain raiser for the club’s new downtown purpose-built soccer stadium, many fans quickly took to social media to complain of feeling locked out of this historic event. For a club that averaged the second highest crowds in Major League Soccer behind the Seattle Sounders, with 31,324, the move to a stadium that seats 25,500 does mean a number of the Orlando City faithful will be left on the outside looking in this season.