The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open cup is considered the country's oldest soccer tournament and it is also one of the few venues where amateur and semi-pro teams get a chance to take on a professional club.
This year, the 108th open begins with a Bay Area battle with two San Francisco teams who are among the 28 amateur and semi-pro teams vying for the cup
"I had this in the back of my mind that I want to do something that would just excite the people of the city," said Darabi.The club’s assistant manager Pierre Hicks, is an optical engineer, and says "the odds of making a pro [team] in U.S. soccer just so ridiculously low that a lot of really good players end up, you know, just pursuing other careers."
Darabi says the team has players from 12 countries, nine former pro players, several former college athletes, and some who thought they had said goodbye to the pitch. They've all been brought together by this idea that you never really say goodbye to a great love and a dream. And so they practice in the city they love, a group of players chasing different dreams with one unifying goal.
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