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Podcast: Five Stripe Final: An Atlanta United podcast
Episode: MLS CUP CHAMPIONS! Atlanta United 2-0 Portland Timbers
Description: In front of 73,019 fans from a recently deceased bad sports town, Atlanta United broke a 23-year-old Atlanta curse by beating the Portland Timbers 2-0 to claim the two-year-old club’s first MLS Cup.
Not only did the win mark the end of a decades long drought, it marked the culmination of perhaps the most successful expansion plan in sports history.
Attendance records shattered. A city captured. A championship in just two years.
“This club had a plan from the very beginning,” Tata Martino said through a translator. “From the first time we spoke in September of 2016 in Rosario. The important thing is...