Here’s a sentence some of us might not have expected to read, or write, this month:
The Philadelphia Union are one of the hottest teams in MLS, one of the league’s most aesthetically pleasing, arguably even the most fashionably edgy dark-horse MLS Cup pick any North American soccer hipster could hope to wager their indie-maverick cred on.
How much cred? Well, they’ve attracted a certain locally-grown overnight sports folk hero to hop aboard their coattails: