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It was a sight rarely seen at Olympic Stadium of late. Fully two hours before the game was scheduled to begin, people were lined up in the rotunda, waiting for the doors to open. With the snow blowing outside, the souvenir store was crowded and there were queues at most, if not all, of the concession stands.

All this for a soccer game. In winter. We wonder now if Impact owner and president Joey Saputo still believes there’s not enough buzz revolving around his team?

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On a night when the clock refused to strike midnight on the Cinderella Impact, it was rookie Cameron Porter who proved the unlikely hero. It was Porter who discovered the slipper did indeed fit.

Porter, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound rookie American forward who played collegiately at Princeton, scored in extra time in what is arguably the biggest goal in team history. And it wasn’t even the winning goal in the Impact’s 1-1 tie Tuesday night against Mexican side Pachuca in the second-leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final.