Opinion: The San Antonio Spurs-owned soccer club features a high-powered attack and one of the best defenses in the league.
Santiago Patiño of San Antonio FC fires a shot on goal during a USL Championship soccer match in July against Atlanta United 2.There’s a football team in San Antonio that has a great shot at winning a trophy this year.San Antonio FC, the minor league team that plays on the North Side, is the best sports story in town right now.
And the team is easy to root for because of the way its players are willing to go to battle on the field. The club has used the alliterative “mentality monsters” as a The two-year-old Major League Soccer franchise from up the interstate has impressed in its second season — on Friday, the Verde and Black beat frontrunners Los Angeles FC and are firmly on track not only to qualify for the playoffs but enjoy home-field advantage. But it was the San Antonians who triumphed when the two teams met in the U.S. Open Cup in April.
After SAFC’s Justin Dhillon tied the game in the 82nd minute, San Antonio defender Carter Manley found the go-ahead goal in the first period of extra time, with the home crowd finally matching the decibel level of the perpetually chanting Austin fans. Watching that game made me think about the unrealized potential of soccer in San Antonio.
The maneuvering of Austin FC owner Anthony Precourt, who sat on the league’s expansion committee before deciding to move on from Columbus, was sharply criticized as unfair to San Antonio, which had done the work to submit a formal expansion bid while Austin had not.
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