We Ready.
You hear it in the roar as supporters march toward Mercedes-Benz Stadium on match day. You hear it in the stands and see it on scarves. But it started as just two words in Archie Eversole’s notebook.
“The whole cadence and anthem of the song came from the crunk energy, from back when Atlanta started crunk music and the whole world jumped on it."
"Everything about Atlanta is me and everything in my music is Atlanta. It’s the heart of everything I do musically.”
It’s fair to say Atlanta made Archie Eversole, both as a musician and a person. Born in Riverdale just south of College Park, Archie says that beyond the groundbreaking music scene, the people in Atlanta are what kept him around.
“It’s that melting pot, we have different types of flavors of everything."
"Especially now, the city is progressing and different people are moving here. What the soccer team has shown me is that I couldn’t name all the nationalities that are in our city. I walked in to a match and think wow, there’s no ethnicity that I didn’t see there.”
Archie has immediate family born in parts of Africa where soccer is king, so a new hometown team was always going to get his support. But seeing the fans adopt his song as one of their own was too special to miss.
“The team started well and I said ‘wow these guys aren’t playing.’ Then I saw footage of the fans coming to the stadium, hundreds of people in a line screaming We Ready, and I said,"
"'Wow, I've got to go see what this is about.'"
And though he had heard rumors about the Atlanta United fans, nothing could prepare him for his first experience.
“At first it was overwhelming, even for someone who’s performed at stadiums. I’ve never seen the energy that I see at Atlanta United games. We went up on the capo stand and did We Ready, and I’m telling you we couldn’t even see the end of the fans.”
And while Archie has performed at stadiums, or even the World Series, he says he’s never received the kind of love he gets from the Five Stripes nation.
“You’re rooting for your hometown and your hometown is rooting for you, there’s no better feeling. There’s no concert that can even compare to that. My kids are there, my nieces and nephews, my Auntie came from North Carolina just to see the spectacle."
"70,000+ people all singing my song? It’s incredible.”
Archie says watching his home city embrace a sport that’s meant so much to his family has been a blessing, and they’re ready to help take the club to another level on and off the field. He’s given back to the community with soccer gear himself and is fighting to get soccer back in after-school school programs.
“I’m not sure we can fit any more fans in the stadium, so all we can do now is take over the city too. We’re trying to go all the way, because I want to unite the streets and the community in the same way.”
Considering how the first season went, Archie says he’s more than confident this is just the beginning of something special that will change the city forever.
“I’m not going to say we’re going to try, we don’t try, we do: we’re turning this into a soccer town. But the more this team develops I realize: it already was.”
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