German fan visits St Louis City SC - there is no way this club is only a few months old! 

Enjoyed your video! I'm a 63-year old man who lives in the St. Louis area (In Illinois, 45 minute drive north of St. Louis), and grew up a football/soccer fan. St. Louis has deep and rich tradition in football dating back to the 1870's. When I was a kid, I was a fan of the old North American Soccer League's (predecessor of MLS 1968-1984) St. Louis Stars, which fielded a team of primarily St. Louis players. St. Louis teams dominated U.S. amateur and collegiate soccer during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. The last year the St. Louis Stars played, 1977, I saw them play the New York Cosmos at old Busch Stadium. The Cosmos had Pele (his final season), Franz Beckenbauer, Georgio Chinaglia and Carlos Alberto. The Stars won 2-0. St. Louis had a professional soccer league from 1907 through 1938 (St. Louis Soccer Football League, St. Louis Soccer League).

Saint Louis is in many ways the spiritual heart of the Beautiful Game in the United States. Local Italian and German immigrants brought the sport to StL, where it flourished. The 1930 US national side finished 3rd in the WC. The 1950 WC squad famously defeated England, and outplayed Spain for 70 minutes before losing. Both teams were composed mostly of players from Saint Louis - few of whom were proper professionals. As a youth, I played on what we thought was a pretty decent U-15 squad. We dominated our league and did well in regional tournaments. Then.... we played against a side from Saint Louis and received rather a rude education. The score was respectable - we lost 3-2. But, both our goals were flukes and they should have had at least six. Long winded way of saying that it's no shock that StLSC is well supported. The locals know the game.

Looks like the MLS fanbase is growing, interesting! Certainly with newer clubs they catch on a thing or two about the spreading fan culture around the world that so many other clubs have. And thanks for recording this great experience Sascha! You've got some really underrated content and hopefully your content starts reaching more people so they get to know that the MLS atmosphere is by no means slowing down. Much love!

"Shoot it baby one more time"....New chants will come. People are just getting a hang of the current ones.

Never ever underestimate the passion for soccer in America. We are always overlooked

St. Louis was long overdue for a team in the top-league, the city is the heart of football in the United States.

As a St. Louis native who lived in Stuttgart and Freiburg for quite some time, I really resonated with your comments on Maultaschen and toasted raviolis. Glad you enjoyed our city - zum Wohle!

Love these MLS videos from a German perspective, keep them coming! I saw the Atlanta one and was waiting for the next. I think you could create quite a following going around to all the mls teams as it's a league that will be growing exponentially over the next several years. Also, drinking with the fans > media access 😉

the area where the stadium is used to be a park, highway on/off ramp and parking lots. very fortunate there was enough land to assemble without major disruption. also the Spirit of St. Louis was a plane built and flow by Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. It was also obviously named after the City’s spirit but that’s the main reason why that specific phrase has stuck.

The Spirit if St Louis Was the name of the plane Lindberg crossed the Atlantic

I am a Peruvian fan and I have followed American soccer since the 2014 World Cup, I have seen that it grows more every year, I am very happy about that. Greetings from Barcelona. Txs 4 video.

I was at this game, section 222, above the supporters section. So glad you had a good time. Tank you for all the kind words about the club, for being such a great guest, and for shining a spotlight on one of the best parts of our city!

As a supporter section STH, this video captures the gameday and supporter experience very well! Great job! Thanks for visiting.

As someone who lives in st. Louis, thanks for showing our city in a positive light. We always get a lot of crap but there's a lot of good here. We're also kind of the heartbeat of US soccer as a whole. That's why it feels like they shouldn't have this type of atmosphere because we're a new club. But we've been wanting a soccer team for so long. It's only natural that when most of the talent comes from St. Louis for the country. That if you invest in a team in that city, they're going to do well. And it's not just at the park. There's a whole new bar that opened up called the pitch right next to it that shows games. And on the app for the club it shows every bar in the city that shows games. And they're almost always full when I go.

St. Louis's Captain is Eduard Löwen. He came up through Kaiserslautern's and 1. FC Saarbrücken's academies. He made his debut with my home club, 1. FC Nürnberg. Roman Burki was Dortmunds keeper before he went to St. Louis.

St. Louis native here. St. Louis is a big soccer city. Alot of youth club teams.

great job man!! thanks for talking about the MLS!!! Please come to Austin, TX next and I'll buy you a beer! I just traveled to STL to watch my ATX lose 6-3 and then drove back w/my dad to WI... Great city though!! we did the same things!

Awesome video Sacha, again great meeting you at the pregame Tailgate and glad you enjoyed yourself!

I'm a big City SC fan but I'm also glad you spent time at Union Station! You might find it pedestrian but in the railroad heyday of the US that was the third busiest stations in the country, and one of a handful of golden age stations to remain standing, although none of them are stations anymore. I'm particularly happy that they kept the headhouse, even if it had to become a hotel, and that the wheel, the aquarium, and especially STL City SC can bring people to this piece of history that was almost built over

Glad you could make it out! Game was very fun to be at 😁

Great video 🔥🔥 Keep these MLS vlogs coming!

Great video! Thanks for your hard work putting this together

Great video. Very intimate and up-close views of this team and their stadium. I'm looking forward to seeing more videos like this from this channel!

So cool! Thanks for visiting and all your good vibes!

Got a friend who's a Season Ticket Holder. He showed me his Inaugural Season ticket that was made From the same Steel used to make the Stadium! I definitely should try to go there next season.

Glad to have you in St Louis. GO CITY!

Sascha! This is badass brother! Keep up the great work and pumping out the awesome content! Best, from Illinois (STLSC supporter)

Great work Sascha! Hope you come back for another game.

Great video and best of luck with your channel!

Thanks for coming to STL. My son got to be on the pitch for the first City SC game against Charlotte and had a blast. Tschüss!

Lots of this Country has surprising "Soccer" aka "Football" cultures. Supposedly St. Louis is one of those historic soccer hubs. Real Old timers call it the "capital" of Soccer in US, like before the 1990's, apparently a lot of early immigrants who played were St. Louis based. Another one is in Pennsylvania (interestingly where Christian Pulisic is from, in Hershey). One of the more historic clubs is based in Pennsylvania. The St. Louis club just tapped into the culture and soccer fandom that was already there. It might take generations for certain aspects to organically develop, such as the entire stadium developing its own culture (think BVB's "wall" or Liverpool's "YNWA"), but some are already kinda getting there, such as RSL's "Believe" anthem.

Thank you for visiting our city and highlighting our team. Hope you enjoyed everything and also hoping you can make a return visit at some point.

IDK If anyone has brought this up yet but The Spirit of St. Louis is also the aircraft that made the very first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. Great video! One of a kind, and it is great to see the club through your lens!

I watch MLS every now and then. st. louis and charlotte have the best fanbase. It's nice to see that a Swabian spends money sometimes. thx for the vid. LG aus Österreich

Thank you for coming to our stadium! It’s been an amazing ride this year!

Love the videos! You need to catch a Detroit City FC game in the USL, one of the most unique environments in the US

I’m sad I had to miss the game you were at. Next game we are grabbing some beers on me my friend. Always welcome in St. Louis!

I know this is late but the group with the yellow rags and hats in front of you is the No Goal patrol, a group dedicated to leading the burki support!

I grew up in Uruguay for a few years. In 1988 I came back to the US. We still had no MLS. Now, look at an expansion team and it's infrastructure. It's incredible. In Uruguay we were "hoping" to get the 2030 WC along with Argentina and Paraguay. In Uruguay a middle of the road top division teams wishes it could have a practice field like many MLS teams. The US will eventually be competitive in football internationally. Kids love to play it. The money is there at the pro level. Next step is to be more organized at the youth level. Football is the most popular sport with kids, but it needs more investment from US Soccer with it's current and retired players being a part of the youth movement. The Saint Lous stadium is just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I'll be subscribing to you channel.

Love watching these vlogs after seeing the ATL one.

From the newest to the oldest. If you go to the west coast, how about checking out the Cascadia clubs - Portland Timbers, Vancouver Whitecaps and Seattle Sounders. We've been duking it out for 40 odd years in various leagues. St Louis will be in Vancouver October 4th.

Great video! I'm your 300th subscriber

The team is talented. They got lucky to have played Inter Miami CF a week before we got Messi.

Ja, St. Louis ist mir auch sehr positiv wegen der Atmosphäre und dem immer vollen Stadion aufgefallen. Und seit ich festgestellt hatte, daß Bradley Carnell dort Trainer ist, schau ich da noch mit einem ganz speziellen Blick hin. Carnell hat mal bei meinem Verein gespielt 🙂

Thanks for joining us at CITYPARK! ❤

outstanding production. So glad u came. you're familiar w/our sister city. U should come back w/ those media credentials & talk to some of your brother members of our team & management. Yes, come back & visit us again for the playoffs!

You have to come to a Charlotte FC match. We are just ahead of them in how new of a club we are but man our fans have heart!

Oh hey, thats me and my girlfriend next to you in the supporter section! Glad you had a good time and go STL!

Great video! If you want to visit a stadium with really good local food, try TQL in Cincinnati 😊 (plus FC Cincinnati is really killing it this season!!)

Great stadium, great atmosphere.

I enjoyed your video with its focus on the new stadium and the fans. You would have also seen the large practice facility and headquaters across the street next to Union Station. I think the cheering section got off to a good start having a minor league soccer team here for years. I worked by this location for many years and mainly remember it being an off ramp. I read that of the 20,000 season tickets that make up most of its capacity there were requests for many more (60,000).. St. Louis has had Catholic Youth League soccer since 1947 of which my family all participated and now I believe has the largest Bosnian immigration in the U.S. as a start for its fan base. That being said, St. Louis is so fortunate the owners of local Enterprise Car Rental and others privately buillt the new stadium. St. Louis recently went through a very bad experience when its NFL football owner Stan Kroenke preferred the much larger TV market of Los Angeles so he moved the American Football team called the Rams away from a publicly funded 20 year old St. Louis stadium. I think the St. Louis City SC owners are very surprised themselves as to how much soccer interest there is in St. Louis. The key for finally getting an MLS soccer team in St. Louis was the private funding of a new stadium.. Just a great addition to the Cardinals baseball team and the Blues hockey team here. Cannot forget the many great fans of a new XFL spring league football team called the Battle Hawks that are like a minor league football team that now replaces the Rams. It was good seeing your perspective.

Stl is just a great sports city all around and we have been craving a mls team forever so yea

St. Louis doesn't have an NFL or NBA team, and they lost their NFL team fairly recently. The people there must've been happy to see a new team. Its a huge baseball city, but soccer and baseball are very different so its easier to coexist.

"Spirit" is a nod to the famous flight of Charles Lindberg, in the "Spirit of Saint Louis".

🇺🇸 soccer is growing

Cool video

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It's a beautiful stadium. It's essentially built around a giant bowl that was dug out. Field level is below ground.

I can highly suggest you make your way to an FC Cincinnati game! They are top of the league this year when for 3 straight years they were the worst team in MLS. The playoff atmosphere at TQL Stadium is going to be amazing since this will be the first time we are hosting! Make your way to going into the Bailey as it's a supporter section like no other, 3,000 strong supporters! Lol, I would even be your guide for a match day. We are growing a soccer/futbol culture in Cincinnati like no other!

St Louis just happy to have a pro team again

The sporting director is Lutz Pfannienstiel, who has worked with several Bundesliga teams. I’d like to know what German club-building techniques he’s used in St. Louis.

Great video. I'm subscribed. Now come to PORTLAND!

@sascha the Spirit of Saint Louis is also the name of the airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew on the first trans Atlantic flight

Says priemers in 60 seconds. Can’t wait to hear how your experience was Sascha.

The team may be new, but the fans aren’t necessarily. There have been professional soccer teams in the St. Louis area for a good while now, in the second and third tiers on the pyramid.

St. Louis is a major sports city that had one of its pro teams strip away so those people have been dying to cheer on a new pro sports team!

If anything you gotta experience playoff football with LAFC

A lot of MLS' newest clubs (Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, LAFC, Cincinnati, Austin, STL), they're part of what the fanbase refers to as "MLS 3.0". MLS 1.0 was largely dominated by LA Galaxy (and David Beckham and co.). MLS 2.0, and I'm shamelessly a fan but it's really impossible to make an argument otherwise- MLS 2.0 has been Seattle's time. Who will be (if any) the dominant club in the next 10 years? Who knows. But all of the clubs joining the league now, are falling in line providing a pretty good experience. I don't personally see STL maintaining form for years. But a wonderful debut year for them.

I truly believe a lot of this passion is a result of the St Louis Rams being moved to LA. That kind of thing tears the heart out of a city, and a lot of the fans were waiting for another outlet for that support. Also it would have been a nice fuck you to the Kroenkes to name their club the St Louis Rams, and use their old logo which I assume is no longer copyrighted since the NFL team was moved.

I hope you get the opportunity to see a match in Portland.

Just curious, how are you able to get Media credential approved? Are you a reporter or journalist?

Spirit of St Louis was the plane Charles Lindbergh flew trying to fly around the world. He took off from St Louis. Your CITY SC fan was lacking knowledge.

I was at the game

'The Spirit of St Louis' war einen Flugzeug.War der erste, das den Nordatlantik direkt ueberflog.

What is the Spirit of St Louis? Well, it’s actually an airplane that was the first to make a nonstop flight across the Atlantic….or a defunct ABA team….you pick.

The club is only a few months old, but St. Louis has been a soccer city since the 1920s.

4:08 eating with Wilson Fisk!

how do you apply for media credentials ?

Can’t wait to head back to STL and maybe…. Catch a game with my wife

Dos anyone knows the head (leader) of ST LOUISE CITY fans (is there someone)???

You should go to a college football game, some of them manage to pull in over 100,000 people.

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just fyi you can catch non stop flight to Frankfurt to stl

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While soccer won't overtake sports like American football, baseball, and basketball, it not exactly starving for attention in this nation.

Advice: Don't shoot with the light behind you, as in the opening of your video. It puts you in complete shadow.

The STL sports scene is truly a gem in a community that's falling apart. It just shows how much potential this area still has. It just stinks that people don't care about the atrocities happening here.

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They got knocked out by my team in the 1st round, but honestly, Sporting KC was playing very well at the end of the year compared to going winless in their first ten

It’s good that you’re going to the SKC-STL derby next. Kansas City has great Soccer culture. The base for the “ultras”, the American Outlaws, of the US National Team is located in Kansas City. The derby is in its first year but the rivalry seems to be off to a good start.

they overuse that "s c l" chant

Other U.S. sports are slowly fading due to viewership demographics. Average age of MLB fan is like mid 50's. Millennials like soccer.

St Louis used to have the Rams but the NFL moved them to LA a few years ago. Them losing their football team plus the Blues (hockey) and Cardinals (baseball) being pretty mediocre recently means that there was definitely a vacuum waiting to be filled by a team with buzz.

By the the way the "spirit of St. Louis" was the name of a bomber plane during ww2 that had a book written about it

New teams: Cincinnati and St. Louis are in first place? There are too many teams in Major League Soccer. Good coaches keep getting fired because of bad players.

The chants are embarrassingly bad... Nice stadium though

Lol, you should’ve come to FC Cincinnati instead to see a ridiculous supporter base and one of the absolute loudest stadiums in MLS.