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A Shiny New Front in the Battle for L.A.’s Soccer Soul

LOS ANGELES — In this city so associated with star power, there is always somebody more famous than you.

Even in a tunnel.

Take the players from the city’s new Major League Soccer team, Los Angeles F.C. When they and their opponents leave their locker rooms to walk onto the field for matches at the team’s new Banc of California Stadium, which will host its first match on Sunday, they first will walk through what could pass for one of L.A.’s hip new nightspots.

On one side, separated by a series of velvet ropes, will be the Field Club, featuring a large bar surrounding a cube-shaped floor-to-ceiling light installation and reserved for the sort of people with enough money to buy a field suite.