The game of soccer is built on anticipation. It is built in the moments before the whistle blows and the ball is put into play. It is built on the buzz of the crowd before a penalty kick is taken. It is built in the chorus of the chanting fans, standing in unison to support the crest of the team they love. It is built on passion and tradition, on skill and beauty. It is built on anticipation.

It is in this state of constant anticipation that the allure of soccer becomes so real. It is in the build-up to a goal that the height of soccer excitement is experienced. Your team intercepts a pass or corrals an errant volley and begins a counter-attack. A crisp pass to a streaking forward brings the entire crowd to their feet. They stand and hold their collective breath as the ball hooks and bends off the striker’s foot, snaking past the goalkeeper and rippling the back of the net.

Euphoria.

And yet the goal itself is only a release, a denouement to the prose that takes place on the pitch. The real drama happens in the in-between moments, in the anticipation of the game-winning goal.

We, the Crocketteers, believe that our own euphoric moment is coming. We believe that San Antonio will soon have a world-class soccer team to call it’s own. And as lovers of both the “beautiful game” and San Antonio, we are dedicated to doing our part to bring that team home. We wait then, appropriately, in anticipation of that day. We wait on area soccer fields. We wait around televisions in area pubs. Hundreds of us, Crocketteers… Our numbers are growing every day, a virtual army of supporters just waiting for a team to stand behind.

And we wait imagining that day when our anticipation is realized, when the game of Pele and Ronaldo and Beckham and Maradona finds itself home in San Antonio. That day will come and our anticipation will find itself transformed into absolute euphoria. And we’ll say we were there at the very beginning. We’ll remember when we, San Antonio’s premier soccer supporter’s group, stood in anticipation.

So the question is…

Will you stand with us?