Atlanta Emerges as a Soccer City with Thrilling Copa Opener

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00:00The crowd down in Atlanta, that town has become a soccer town.

00:07They're outdrawing the Falcons.

00:09They get crazy rabid soccer fans down there.

00:13And it was the same thing again for the Copa opener with Messi in town, as you would expect.

00:18He's doing that wherever he goes, playing for that Miami team, but playing with the

00:22Argentinian team's a different scene altogether.

00:26Oh yeah, I mean, even one of the fun things about Copa America, just as an entire tournament,

00:33is the whole thing is just a party and a celebration of soccer.

00:37So no matter what, whether you have Uruguay or Chile or Colombian fans coming to town,

00:44they're all just there to party and have a good time, even if their team's not actually

00:49winning.

00:50And it's one of those cool things that's a taste of what we're going to see in 2026 with

00:55the World Cup here.