The A is for amour: United’s French defender Tristan Muyumba is settling in quite well in his new home

Atlanta United defender Tristan Muyumba at the team’s training grounds, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Photo by Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice MARIETTA, Ga.- On a cool and slightly overcast Tuesday morning, Atlanta United players made their way through individual drills and team workouts along the grass fields at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Training Ground. Arguably Atlanta’s best supported professional sports franchise, United was once again at the top of the attendance charts at the end of 2023, averaging a league high 47,526 fans per each of its 17 home games, according to sports data website Soccer Stadium Digest. One of the players cutting and juking back and forth on the field that morning was thrust into a graduate school level of learning just how crazy the support and fandom can be for the Five Stripes when he arrived last summer.& French defensive midfielder Tristan Muyumba, 26, is just days away from playing in his first Major League Soccer season opener. Muyumba made his official United debut during a Leagues Cup match against Cruz Azul last July 29 inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Coming to Atlanta from Ligue 2 club EA Guingamp, a respectable club in its own right, Muyumba was thrust into...