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Entrant Company
D.C. United
Entry Type
Teams, Leagues, Governing Bodies, & Associations
Program
Clio Sports 2025
Medium Type
Professional
Medium
Branded Entertainment/Content
Category
Athlete Storytelling
D.C. United’s Honor the Legacy film transforms soccer legends into living historians who carry the weight of launching and building a new league on their shoulders.
The campaign takes fans on a reverse-chronological journey through the D.C. Metro, where each stop becomes a portal to championship moments that shaped not only a club but American soccer itself.
Six legendary athletes, the architects of MLS’s first dynasty, revisit their triumphs alongside the doubts and skeptics they silenced with every title. Narrated by D.C. United icon Eddie Pope, their stories center on the conviction that “legacies aren’t inherited, they’re earned.”
These athletes are presented not just as champions but as guardians of something sacred. Their achievements are now enshrined at the National Archives. The film’s final reveal of D.C. United jerseys displayed alongside the nation’s most treasured documents elevates them from sports figures to cultural icons, their legacy “etched in the Archives and still being written.”
Ultimately, the film shows that the most powerful athlete stories are not about individual glory but about how greatness becomes generational.