Originally published on December 22, 2020 10:14 am
The first player to wear St. Louis City SC’s jersey will be a professional gamer.
St. Louis’ Major League Soccer team won’t hit the pitch until 2023, but the franchise will begin competing in the virtual arena in January. The team signed St. Louis esports player Hasib Zulfic last month.
Zulfic, 20, will compete on behalf of the team in online FIFA tournaments. Zulfic s signing is part of a strategy by St. Louis City SC to attract more fans to the budding soccer team by leveraging one of the most popular sports video game series in the world.
Take a peek inside St. Louis City SC s stadium site as construction reaches key milestone
City SC’s 22,500-seat stadium, slated to open in 2022, will anchor a development that’ll span more than 30 acres in Downtown West
Credit: SLBJ Published: 7:33 AM CST December 17, 2020 Updated: 10:50 AM CST December 17, 2020
ST. LOUIS The future home of St. Louis’ Major League Soccer franchise is starting to take shape.
Construction crews this week completed a significant milestone on the development of St. Louis City SC’s Downtown West stadium project, putting the first steel beam in place for the stadium. The steel erection comes 10 months after crews began construction on the project and marks a key step in the continued buildout of the $461 million project.