Soccer is more than twenty-two players on a pitch. It’s more than the fans in the crowd or the people watching in bars and living rooms. Soccer is the stadium cleaners and concession workers, the photographers and gate agents. It’s the people who live up the street from the field, who sit in their front yard watching flag-waiving strangers stream past on Saturday afternoons. Soccer is the Teamster rolling a keg into the walk-in cooler on game day morning and the bartender who taps it. Soccer is the parent driving their kid to practice, and the one staying home with the baby, It’s the teenager taking her friend to his first game and the bus driver taking them there. It’s the feeling of hearing a goal from a block away. Soccer is much more than a game. It’s a spirit— a community.