Union is not backing down

In case you hadn’t heard.  There is a new team in town.

Led by the ownership group of Keystone Sports and Entertainment, LLC, the club operated under the name MLS Philadelphia for most of 2008 and the early portion of 2009. 

Peter Nowak was introduced as the first ever Team Manager of Philadelphia Union on May 29th, 2009. The club’s first players were then acquired on November 25th via the MLS Expansion Draft. the club plays its home opener April 10th. 
Because it has been 30 years since a top-flight professional soccer team had played a game in Philadelphia the cities  rich and successful soccer history may be unfamiliar to many fans. Make no mistake, while the City of Brotherly Love may be a newcomer to MLS, the region’s professional soccer history is second to none.
The Philadelphia Atoms won the NASL championship in 1973 and had a productive 4 year run here, before being replaced by the Philadelphia Fury who never produced a winning season.   I remember as a child going to the games and wondering at how big everything seemed.   Then the Fury was transplated by the Fever, and the league changed to the MISL which held less appeal to me than the outdoor league it was formed from.
Now finally, back, as real Major League Soccer professionals, we have the Union.  I urge all to go and support this team. 
They play 30 games in the complete schedule, and lost their season opener by a score of 2-0 to the Seattle Sounders
They are led by Peter Nowak.  Nowak has won MLS Cups as both player and coach, the only individual to have accomplished the feat in league history.  He is joined by John Hackworth and Rob Vartughian.
The team is led by a group of great players acquired in this years draft.   These players include Alejandro Moreno, Shea Salinas, Shavar Thomas, Jordan Harvey, and Danny Califf, among others.  
Come out Saturday to the Linc.  Come early, the pregame tailgating begins at 9 a.m., the game against DC United doesn’t start til 6 p.m.  But we have soccer in Philadelphia again !!
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