In a lot of ways, last Sunday felt like the arrival of soccer in Nashville.
Yes, Music City has had a long and underappreciated history with the beautiful game. But from the Nashville Diamonds and the Nashville Metros and Nashville Football Club, to the two years in Major League Soccer at Nissan Stadium, everything culminated in GEODIS Park’s opening day.
More than ever before, Sunday felt like the day that Nashville finally embraced soccer.
I remember sitting on the hard bleachers at Vanderbilt’s cavernous football stadium in the summer of 2015. The crowd of 1,000 or so fans was loud and engaged, but it was very much a niche group of die hard supporters.
