# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-07-24T21:37:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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While it is normal to see a bunch of light blue filling out Kenan Stadium, fans dressed in the color were cheering on a different team than the Tar Heels on Tuesday night as Manchester City took on Celtic F.C. for an international soccer friendly.

Despite being based thousands of miles away from North Carolina, Manchester City has a dedicated following stateside — including in the Triangle, with a supporters’ club that was thrilled to see its favorite team play close to their home.

Jonathan Seiglie remembers the English Premier League landing a new broadcast deal while he was in college at UNC. As a soccer fan, it provided a new chance to follow more games – and as a raised Tar Heel fan, he quickly gravitated to a particular team.
“Growing up Carolina blue was the correct shade of blue,” he told 97.9 The Hill. “My dad and my mom wouldn’t let me wear anything else. So, I started watching the Premier League and I noticed there’s a team that wears what looks like Carolina blue – or sky blue – called Manchester City.”

“They played an interesting style of football, they were very much at that time more underdogs,” Seiglie continued. “So, I started pulling for the sky-blue team, the more blue-collar team.”

Seiglie, who now lives in Hillsborough, helped start the local supporters club in 2019 with his friend Jeremy Tatton, who lived in Raleigh. After meeting other local Man City fans, Tatton came up with the idea of getting in touch with the Manchester team to become an official supporters club. Before long, the team sent an official plaque welcoming MCFC Raleigh into the Manchester supporters' family. Now, more than 100 people are regularly involved with the local club and attend watch parties at the R+D Seven Saturdays taproom in Raleigh.

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