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wicka posted:bring back parkes, let him kick burfict Hahaha, the pitt rivalry is real.. On a different note, FC Cincinnati is now cold calling people who bought tickets before online and haven't bought again... Not a good sign for beating that record
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fyallm posted:On a different note, FC Cincinnati is now cold calling people who bought tickets before online and haven't bought again... Not a good sign for beating that record Every sports team does that all the time, though
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camoseven posted:Every sports team does that all the time, though Weird, I have not gotten a call from the bengals, reds, cyclones, cincy saints (bad example), Columbus Crew, Florence Freedom yet. And this was the first time FC Cincinnati called me and it's not the second game.
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The GM of the Austin Aztex got interviewed, and here are the bullet points: -Potential investors have been located and are in negotiations -The team may rebrand, but not until the new money is on board -We have a stadium solution, but the decision might not be announced until November -While the FO focuses on the USL for now, 2024 is the target date for all the ducks to be in a row for the Majors
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Berding during a presentation last night said the ticket sales for FC Cincinnati hit 17.5k tickets sold. They are expecting around 3k~ in walk up window sales... That is still a decent size gap from the 25K they wanted.
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May 13, 2016 13:29
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Well FCC is now at 20k tickets sold for tomorrow !
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Reported 23,375 in attendance at FC Cincinnati. Cold calling works, people. https://twitter.com/USL/status/731618283514961921
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Didn't make the 25K but drat it was chilly outside!! The town seems to be finally backing soccer
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CaptainYesterday posted:-The team may rebrand, but not until the new money is on board I don't care what anyone says, I like the Austin Aztex name. It's cute and stupid and a pun, and more importantly it has some history now. Why change it? 
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This video is making the rounds and he's even being called "a future Keylor Navas", does anyone follow Pittsburgh? Is he consistently that good? Also that crowd is incredible for a 3rd tier team, here we can't get that kind of attendance in the top flight (and that means total yearly attendance for some teams) https://www.facebook.com/tdmascostarica/videos/1720529688192916/
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Simone Poodoin posted:This video is making the rounds and he's even being called "a future Keylor Navas", does anyone follow Pittsburgh? Is he consistently that good? no idea, gilstrap started every game prior to that one
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Apparently not mentioned in the press release is that the franchise has been awarded to Nashville on the condition that the team finalizes it's plan to build a soccer-only stadium in a timely fashion.
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The FC Cincinnati game was postponed this weekend due to the field at Charlotte looking like this garbage dump:
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fyallm posted:The FC Cincinnati game was postponed this weekend due to the field at Charlotte looking like this garbage dump: Looks as bad as Al Lang did when the St. Pete Baseball Commission was still in charge. quote:USL Has Its Eyes Set On San Diego quote:Nashville awarded United Soccer League franchise Meanwhile, in NASL.... quote:Bill Hagerty leads separate effort to bring pro soccer to Nashville quote:Fort Lauderdale Strikers: Where Did It All Go Wrong? quote:Working with Nesta a privilege, says new Miami signing Ryan quote:The Irish influence is proving crucial in the second tier of North American soccer quote:'I closed the door, turned to the missus and said 'What the f**k has just happened?'' quote:Selling soccer to the States: The growth of MLS and the beautiful game in the US quote:Sports Opinion: MLS This Could Be Us But… This is what I keep telling Beckham via my psychic mind control powers but he hasn't succumbed yet. Al Lang is perfect. Screw Miami and its crooked politicians, Becks. Tampa Bay Rowdies is what you want.
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Do over Ham posted:This is what I keep telling Beckham via my psychic mind control powers but he hasn't succumbed yet. Al Lang is perfect. Screw Miami and its crooked politicians, Becks. Tampa Bay Rowdies is what you want. It's really shocking that, after all the troubles trying to get stadium land, they've not gone with this.
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King of False Promises posted:It's really shocking that, after all the troubles trying to get stadium land, they've not gone with this. It's literally staring them in the face. Florida, downtown urban waterfront stadium, with no NIMBY problems and with a city government quite eager to attract sports investors (due to the Rays inevitable move when their lease is up), with an already established soccer team using the facility (the Tampa Bay Rowdies with an established 41 year old brand name that is well known worldwide especially in Britain) and an already established and proven fan base (which Miami has yet to demonstrate that it has). After their second or third failure to get a site in Miami I have to believe that the Beckham group started to look at other cities as a backup plan. Becks was in Las Vegas recently so the assumption is that he'll use Las Vegas as his backup plan but they have potentially got the same kinds of problems in Las Vegas as they do in Miami, with none of the pluses that the Tampa Bay Rowdies have. And they have the gambling stigma in Las Vegas as well; maybe not something that Beckham would worry about but he really should try to think of some cities that aren't just "glamour and glitter" cities for a change. Also Bill Edwards and the Rowdies are really ready for MLS now if they had the Beckham group on board: unlike Las Vegas you would not have to wait for a stadium to get built you could expand Al Lang as is during the off season; and/or use the Ray Jay if necessary (and like Orlando they could probably fill an NFL-sized stadium, while Al Lang was being expanded, especially with the Beckham brand attached to the Rowdies brand). It's win-win idea, and just what the Rowdies need to break through the "but it isn't going to be as good as the original 1970s era Rowdies, so why bother" stigma/catch-22 that we are currently suffering from. What are they, on their fourth site in Miami, now? And Miami is trying to impose all kinds of unreasonable conditions on Beckham's group? Time to look elsewhere. I keep sending Beckham letters, urging him to look at the Rowdies, so now I just feel like a stalker.  Are Mick Jagger, Rick Wakeman, Peter Frampton and Paul Simon potential Philadelphia Fury owners again I wonder? quote:Philadelphia Fury seek NASL move with potential partners in Spain, Dubai and Las Vegas Interesting trivia, first shirt sponsorship I am aware of (in USA sports) was the Pennsylvania Stoners of the American Soccer League back in 1980. ALPO was the shirt sponsor. quote:http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/will-others-follow-nbas-jersey-sponsorship-decision/ Hooligan problems? Lower leagues: "Hey, MLS, here's Orlando and Atlanta. You're welcome." quote:Wannabe MLS Hooligans Are Adopting The Worst Of Soccer Culture
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The USL people have been spreading a lot of misinformation about USL as a path to MLS, which gets picked up and repeated by others; spot the howlers here: quote:Mountain Star works to bring new soccer stadium, team to El Paso Do over Ham fucked around with this message at 09:39 on May 26, 2016 |
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Do over Ham posted:The USL people have been spreading a lot of misinformation about USL as a path to MLS, which gets picked up and repeated by others; spot the howlers here: That's ridiculous.
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Do over Ham posted:The USL people have been spreading a lot of misinformation about USL as a path to MLS, which gets picked up and repeated by others; spot the howlers here: Wasn't the Minneapolis/Atlanta teams NASL? Orlando did go from USL to MLS thought I guess. I am guessing they are saying the silverbacks(NASL) dissolved and\now Altanta United counts for MLS? I have no idea what that article means... But hopefully within the next 4ish years FC Cincinnati will be included in that article 
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fyallm posted:Wasn't the Minneapolis/Atlanta teams NASL? Orlando did go from USL to MLS thought I guess. The article means that some local investors in El Paso are buying into the USL talking points. Minnesota United (Loons or whatever they end up calling them) are going from NASL to MLS. Orlando City is the only city mentioned that went straight from USL to MLS. Atlanta Silverbacks were NASL; Atlanta United in MLS has no connection to them. All of the other teams that have moved from USL to MLS did so when the NASL did not yet exist, so talking about "USL is the path to MLS" using those as examples to slight the NASL is ridiculous USL spin. Also, many of those USL-to-MLS teams were part of TOA, IIRC, so they would have been NASL teams eventually if they had not gone to MLS first. Edit to add: also, El Paso is the number 98 TV market in the USA, so they barely made the top 100 list. These investors have to be drinking the Kool-Aid to think that MLS would ever be interested in their market. Do over Ham fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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CaptainYesterday posted:There's also the MLS/USL partnership, along with the NASL trying in vain to compete with MLS.
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King of False Promises posted:It's really shocking that, after all the troubles trying to get stadium land, they've not gone with this. Serendity; I was suddenly curious if David Beckham and Bill Edwards had any kind of connections so I googled them and this article was at the top of the results; it appears to date from February quote:Bill Edwards Knocks Muhammad Ali Out in Vegas David Beckham was one of the attendees at this event. So at least Beckham and Edwards move in the same circles and potentially know each other or know of each other, outside of soccer. Speaking of Las Vegas: quote:Here's The Challenge That NFL, NHL, MLS And MSG In Las Vegas Would Present NFL is simply trolling again for free stadiums. MLS needs more than that: the demographics (ie middle class soccer moms and dads and kids, and 20-something/30-something hipsters with lots of spending money, etc) are not very good in Las Vegas. Las Vegas would be better off with a USL or NASL club, and build up the support organically and gradually rather than trying to parachute in a Beckham glamour club into Las Vegas and try to piggyback off of an NFL stadium. Las Vegas ain't Seattle or Atlanta. A Las Vegas Beckham MLS club has a lot of potential to fail spectacularly. Do over Ham fucked around with this message at 08:44 on May 28, 2016 |
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Lladre posted:I just saw Rayo OKC logo for the first time and just what the duck. It's based off the Rayo Vallecano logo, which I believe has meaning behind it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwW9h4tLjfA MUFC 0-2 TBR Joe Cole scores his first goal for the Rowdies. Knock on wood/fingers crossed; maybe the Rowdies are finally starting to jell as a team.
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CaptainYesterday posted:It's based off the Rayo Vallecano logo, which I believe has meaning behind it. Yeah it makes sort of sense since it's the same owner. They did change the badge but not enough so that it still looks like Rayo's badge from a distance.
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CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE. This is awesome: http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/05/30/shreveport-new-orleans-soccer-seersucker-jersey-photo That is all.
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Crazy Ted posted:Carolina was tied 0-0 with Charlotte after regulation in their Open Cup game tonight. They went on to five goals in extra time Sure hope there is some video of that. Must have been an epic collapse. quote:United Soccer League's Rhinos sign Shamrocks' standout Sean Reilly quote:GRFC is ready for step up in competition
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quote:Tampa Bay Rowdies balance Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, NASL ambitions quote:USL, MLS to begin testing instant replay quote:David Beckham’s Miami Miasma: Inside His Stadium-Building Struggle Aside from my selfish desire to see Beckham team up with Edwards and take the Tampa Bay Rowdies to MLS, there's also the impact this has on the lower level teams in south Florida to consider. If Miami Beckham United never launches, MLS will not come back to south Florida for a good 5-10 years at least and that gives time to give Miami FC and Ft. Lauderdale Strikers some breathing room to build up their fan base and get some kind of long term stadium situation lined up. I think that this is probably the kind of long term grass roots building effort that is needed, rather than Beckham's glamour and glitter approach. Beckham is stubborn though so who knows how long this story will linger until he finally gets his stadium or gives up and moves on.
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You gotta wonder when MLS will just say 'gently caress it' and give some other city spot #24. It's not like soccer towns are in short supply!
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CaptainYesterday posted:You gotta wonder when MLS will just say 'gently caress it' and give some other city spot #24. It's not like soccer towns are in short supply! There was supposed to be a March deadline which MBU missed, then in April Garber was saying that he was confident that MBU would get their situation sorted out in time for Miami to join MLS on schedule for the 2018 season. Shortly after that the PSG investors MBU were courting pulled out, then in early May the story broke that MBU were balking at all of the conditions Dade County were putting on their land sale; plus heavy NIMBY displeasure in the Overtown area, etc. It's a clusterfuck and I have to think that if it weren't for the glitzy glamour and international name recognition of Miami, that Beckham would have looked elsewhere by now. But even Garber's patience has to run out some time. MBU called in Tim Leiweke to be their fixit man after the first couple of sites fell through; if I were him I'd be looking at other cities right about now. In NASL, Rowdies beat Ottawa 2-1 at Al Lang. I was skeptical at first about the Joe Cole signing but he is turning out rather well. He still has plenty of hustle and his accurate passing has really improved the Rowdies offense. This is the first match he has been subbed out of (at about 77th minute) which is pretty impressive as he is not used to playing in this kind of heat and humidity. Both goals to Georgi Hristov; he has been doing quite well lately as well. Strikers beat Cosmos at Lockhart, also 2-1, so Cosmos have not clinched Spring title yet.
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