User:Czarinho/STL United FC

The group STL United FC started with a half a dozen friends watching UEFA Champions League games at OB Clark's in Brentwood, Mo. back in the early 1990's This changed when founder, Tom Schwarz met Soccer legend Ty Keough and Ty spread the word to his friends. soon enough the crowds were growing and the group moved to Grassi's West (AC Grassi) for a while before returning to OB Clark's in time for the 2006 World Cup. Huge crowds and TV cameras showed up for those games but the group was looking for a home that was not a sports bar, but a Soccer Bar.

This brought them to Barrister's in Clayton early in 2008. Large crowds would assemble for early morning English Premier League games and mid afternoon UEFA Champions League contests. By the Final, on May 22, the word was out and Barrister's was packed with a standing room only crowd PICTURES http://www.stlunitedfc.net/CL2008/index.php

The overflow continued for the Euro 2008 Championship PICTURES http://www.stlunitedfc.net/euro2008final/index.php

Walk into any big match and you are likely to run into former soccer notables such as Bill McDermott or Mike Sorber and any number of SLU alumni and if you are lucky the incomparable Harry Keough. And that is not to mention any number of current club officials and coaches.

You will always see fans in team shirts and colors and Barristers is richly decorated with team banners, flags posters and jerseys. They even have an EPL League Standings table which changes weekly.

The 2009 UEFA CL Final was over the top with fans from around the world jammed in to take advantage of the unique atmosphere. Here is KPLR's coverage http://www.kplr11.com/news/kplr-soccer-fans-barristers-052709,0,595682.story

STL United also supports a Youth Team and a Seniors Team

FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=66305491092&ref=mf

WEB SITE http://www.stlunitedfc.net/