It has been seven-plus weeks since Save The Crew declared The Crew had been SaveD, yet the group’s leaders still meet every Monday. They are preparing for a cascade of news soon to rush over the city.

Crew coach and sporting director Gregg Berhalter will be introduced Tuesday as the next coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team, two sources have told The Dispatch.

A stream of events will be uncorked.

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For nearly two months, Major League Soccer has been negotiating the sale of the Crew to a local group fronted by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his family, and by Dr. Peter Edwards and his Edwards family. (Dr. Pete has been the Crew’s orthopedist from Day 1 and his family runs a successful development/construction business).

Barring something unforeseen, the deal may well be rubber-stamped by the end of the month. January is the hedge bet.

News about plans for a Downtown stadium (probably in the Arena District) is forthcoming. There is also the matter of naming a new coach (and maybe a new general manager).

Save The Crew is girding for the action.

“We know we’re not done yet,” group spokesman Morgan Hughes said. “While the ink dries behind the scenes, we have to decide what our role is now, and what Save The Crew will be in the future.”

It was Oct. 12 when MLS announced it was committed to working with a new ownership group in Columbus, when current owner Anthony Precourt essentially conceded that the Crew wouldn’t be moving to Austin, when Save The Crew proclaimed victory.

By then, STC had been operative for nearly a year and was a well-oiled machine. It had committees for finance, communications, marketing/advertising, event planning/volunteer opportunities, merchandise, website/apps, blogging/videos and business affairs, among other departments. It still does.

It had stuff going on — watch parties, fundraising efforts, social media campaigns, community outreach events, and so on, and so on — all over the place. It still does.

It lined up 11,000-plus season-ticket pledges and assembled more than 400 business allies. It maintains close contact with these supporters, strengthening bonds as a bridge to new ownership is built. Construction of said bridge is well underway, by the way.

Other branches of STC have gathered momentum even during this odd, quiet, transitory period.

STC organized fundraising to equip local youth-soccer teams. With one social-media campaign, they raised enough money in two hours to cover two schools. They’re looking to expand.

Their community and immigrant outreach programs were designed to make tickets affordable and available to people who might not otherwise go to Crew games, or who were loath to give Precourt another nickel. Such programs are evolving in ways previously unforeseen.

“We’re in a reactive period — but what can we do to have a greater impact?” Hughes said. “We started looking at homeless shelters. A couple of our people worked at coming up with a plan to fully staff at least one of the shelters one day a month. We know we have a voice now. How else can we use it?”

STC fought The Man and The Man lost. (New T-Shirt?) These people can do anything.

The power of their grassroots movements has not gone unnoticed by other folks who are dedicated to making Columbus a better city. For instance: Hughes, for one, has been speaking to nonprofit groups about how to marshal a spirit of volunteerism; last week, he was invited to speak to the good folks at Pelotonia.

Recently, a design exercise with renderings for a Arena District stadium received a local architectural award. Rogers Krajnak Architecture and 801 creative — working off ideas submitted by STC members from several states — produced the finished design pro bono.

In the coming weeks, a very real stadium project will be that much closer to reality. Get ready. Things are moving now.

marace@dispatch.com

@MichaelArace1