Regardless of the outcome, the sport will function a constructive reminiscence for these across the membership.
“It was unbelievable, I inform you what,” defender Jaylin Lindsey mentioned.
Lindsey is a North Carolina native who left to affix the Sporting Kansas Metropolis Academy and signed a homegrown contract with the Western Convention membership in 2017. This winter, he was traded to his hometown marketplace for Charlotte’s enlargement season.
“That was the very best sport I’ve been aside of my complete life,” Lindsey, 21, mentioned. “Earlier than I walked off the pitch, I sat at midfield making an attempt to soak all of it in. Picturing myself seven to eight years in the past within the nosebleeds watching [Carolina] Panthers video games and numerous ICC [International Champions Cup] video games. Now, I’m that particular person on the sphere. It was unbelievable. … It was probably the greatest nights of my life, to be sincere with you.”