Did that really happen? Yeah, that really happened
The Kansas City Wizards defeated Manchester United 2-1 in an exhibition game in front of 52,424.
The win, while granted only in an exhibition, is still pretty massive.
How massive? Let's try: It is the biggest mid-season victory in Wizards history and marks the first
time a Major League Soccer team have beaten Manchester United.
Some people are going to try and, to borrow an English phrase, "take the piss" out of this Wizards
for this victory. It was just a friendly, fans are getting too excited about a "win," the Red Devils didn't
care about the game, the game wasn't a complete sellout, blah blah blah blah.
The simple fact is this: The world's largest sporting franchise came to Kansas City with a team filled
with established or up-and-coming players* to play against a mid-level MLS team in front of 50,000+.
And the mid-level MLS team showed their fans (and the 30,000 or so Man United fans in attendance)
that they can play and play well.
*If you want to say this Man United team "lacked stars," fine. But Darron Gibson, Ritchie de Laet and
Danny Welbeck would be among the Top 25 players in MLS if they played over here. Kansas City has,
maybe, four players even in the conversation. That would be Kei Kamara, Davy Arnaud, Stephane Auvray
and Jimmy Nielsen. Ryan Smith is in the Top 40. Maybe Roger Espinoza, Teal Bunbury and Michael Harrington
can get there someday
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