I was there in the beginning. Not just 2010, but in the late 80's as the United States was ascending with Meola, Harkes and Ramos too, qualifying for the FIFA World Cup finals for the first time in 40 years.
I was there in 2007, when I met the men who had the passion and the drive to create a Major League Soccer club and find a home for it here in the Greater Philadelphia Region.
I was there at the Dark Horse Tavern, along with the ‘Elders’, when the crowd of 20 or so we expected morphed into 200-plus Sons of Ben, eager for an update on how plans were progressing.