I want you all to take a moment and just reflect on the past two years. As a matter of fact, let’s reflect on the past four and a half years and what a whirlwind it has been. April 16th, 2014, Arthur Blank announced that Atlanta would be awarded Major League Soccer’s newest expansion team. Sure there were doubts, as there are in the beginning of every new project. We heard it all: “Will Atlanta United be successful in MLS? Will people even show up to games? It’s soccer, the South doesn’t care about soccer.”
Despite all the doubts, the naysayers, the nonbelievers, Arthur Blank stood firm.