🕛Full-Time Death, taxes and Steel City losing to Czarni Jalso. Some certainties seem inescapable. For the first time in its three-year history, Steel City NXT will not be playing in the U23 Illinois State Cup final, after losing 4-1 to Czarni Jaslo U23 in the semi-final. With this defeat, the Joliet curse remains unbroken - no team in Illinois’s third largest city has lifted the trophy in 105 years. Steel City sends a warm thank you to Claudio Frigo (cfrigoo) , President of the Illinois State Soccer Association and Boris Vukovich (bovuk7) Illinois State Cup Commissioner for staging another excellent tournament. Steel City NXT will play Chicago House AC Monday, in a match that has title implications in the U23 Northern Illinois Soccer League. NXT can be proud of their three all-time appearances in the Illinois State Cup. NXT has two second place finishes in ‘22 and ‘23 and a semi-final appearance in ‘24. All-Time NXT State Cup Results: '22: DeKalb County 1 v. Steel City ...