DC United to Honor 97 ‘MLS Championship Team With Wack Exhibition

DC United will honor one of its greatest players, Mario Etcheverry, and its 1997 Major League Soccer championship team with a tribute match pitting aging soccer players against marginally relevant actors and musicians this Saturday. A sample from the release:

Scheduled to join these soccer luminaries will be “Without a Trace” star, Anthony LaPaglia, Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell and Hootie & the Blowfish drummer Jim “Soni” Sonefeld.

What? Who?

I don’t know how interesting this will be, but they could certainly use some pointers from Allen Iverson and his annual celebrity softball game. As it stands now, DC United is going to honor a great team with an event that has lame written all over it.