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AV Alta finding quick success, and strong fan support, in its inaugural season

David Harden has spent enough time writing and producing TV content to know that few shows really follow the script. So he had little expectation his first foray into funding a men’s soccer team would go as planned.

And it didn’t.

“It’s way better than I thought,” he said last week. “For the first 16 months, before the stadium was finished and before we had a team that we could see on the field and the community in the stands, it was an idea, numbers on a spreadsheet.

“But once you come to a game, you know it’s real.