The Los Angeles Football Club will hold a public fan celebration with the team for its first MLS Cup championship Sunday on Christmas Tree Lane outside Banc of California Stadium.
Gates will open at 3 p.m. with fans able to participate in interactive activities and purchase food and drinks. The celebration will be held from 4-6 p.m.
LAFC shot first in the shootout with Andre Blake stopping Cristian Tello's shot. Dániel Gazdag put the Union's first penalty kick over the goal. "It was a lot of hard work, but that makes me proud, not the title, per se, but to have a group of individuals to make a team and to create a mentality to come back and go through everything up through today, the emotional roller coaster, that they found a way to come together and win, that's probably what I'm most proud of.""Couldn't happen to a better guy," Cherundolo said. "John is one of the heartbeats of this team emotionally.
"To be a Philly kid and play against my hometown team, it's their first final, ever, in the MLS Cup, so it's something special," McCarthy said. "I would root for them any day of the week besides today, and I genuinely mean that. There's a lot of good people in that organization, and they mean a lot to me."
"I haven't trained too much over the last three or four weeks because I've had this little slight issue," Bale said. "I was warming up for 40 minutes trying to make myself ready to come on. I knew if the game was close, then yeah, I'm obviously in a good place to call up on.
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