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    The subway helped segment Atlanta; soccer at its stations may help unite it

    Oct 29, 2018 4 minutes

    Curtis Jenkins grew up like most native Atlantans: riding MARTA trains, playing pick-up games of basketball, hanging his head about the Hawks.

    But after several failed attempts to build a team in his neighborhood of East Point, his favorite sport – soccer – went unplayed. 

    Decades later, Mr. Jenkins leads the Footie Mob, one of a number of supporters’ groups that have latched onto the Major League Soccer expansion team Atlanta United. Last week, the team did what many thought impossible: It knocked Real Madrid out of the Top 25 global soccer rankings, becoming the first MLS team to enter that echelon. The team regularly hosts the third

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