What it was like
Your team has always been a screen. A stream that stalls at the worst possible moment, a bar in Chula Vista at nine in the morning, your uncle's living room with the volume up too high. Fifty-five years of this rivalry and you have never once heard it with your own ears.
Then it comes to you. América and Cruz Azul meet at Snapdragon for the 207th Clásico Joven, a FIFA-break friendly, which is the honest word for it and also completely beside the point. Nobody in that building will treat it like an exhibition. There is no away section in San Diego — there are two home sections wearing different colors, and both of them drove.
What sticks afterward is never the scoreline. It is the sound a crowd makes when it has waited a long time to be loud in the same room.
Thursday October 1, 7:30pm, 2101 Stadium Way. Bring the cousin who still defends the 2013 final. Liga MX crosses this county more often than most people here have noticed.