|
all-Rush mixtape posted:North American Soccer League FC Edmonton - NASL's oldest franchise, founded in 2010. Plan to join the tier 2 Canadian Premier League when that starts in 2018. Last year's average attendance: 2,060. Distance from Bayamon, Puerto Rico: a 12 hour flight. Indy Eleven - America's team. Undefeated at home in all competitions in 2016, not that it matters. Ownership group single-handedly kept the NASL alive for 2017 while the Cosmos were out of business for a week, then promptly submitted an MLS expansion bid. Has an investment group ready to pay the $150 million expansion fee, but would require public funds to build a new stadium, which there is no public support for. Average attendance: 8,396. Nearest league rival: NCFC, a 10 hour drive. Jacksonville Armada - Have an inflatable octopus mascot named Squid Vicious. I think they are relocating to UNF's stadium which looks better for soccer but is outside of downtown. Average attendance: 3,499. (way down) Miami FC - Paid $750,000 for Kwadwo Poku. Finished 7th. Not to be confused with Miami United (NPSL), Miami Fusion FC (NPSL), Miami Fusion (MLS, defunct), Miami FC (defunct, became FTL Strikers, also defunct) or Miami Beckham United (defunct MLS bid with no public support). Attendance: 5,427. (up!) New York Cosmos - NASL's newest franchise, founded in January 2017. Planned to build a $400 million stadium at Belmont Park, which there was no public support for. Won the 2016 NASL championship at historic Belson Stadium, which failed to sell out with 2,150 in attendance. Moving to Coney Island's Brooklyn Cyclones baseball stadium. Average attendence: 3,775 (bad). NCFC - If you love dramatic brand restatements, renders of $150 million stadiums with no public support and Norwich City Football Club, the Carolina Railhawks are the team for you. Attendance: 5,058. (pretty good!) Puerto Rico FC - league's best commentary . Attendance: 3,801. The least expensive away day in the NASL if you fly Southwest. San Francisco Deltas - Venture capital and Portuguese language social media. Plan to play in a 5000-seat stadium in Golden Gate Park, which has no public parking.
|
#
¿
Feb 4, 2017 22:47
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 30, 2024 15:40 |
|
|
Kezar Stadium update: it actually does have a parking lot and is right next to UCSF which probably has a parking garage. how's this for fixture congestion: https://twitter.com/sfdeltas/status/828665895773958145 Indy Eleven's schedule the first 4 weeks of the season at SF vs PR at PR vs SF and two teams get bye weeks for some reason AND they're keeping the split spring/fall season thing although with no summer break. I hope this means I don't have to go to yet another godawful friendly with a LigaMX team at noon on the hottest day of July like the past 2 years. MLS commissioner: NASL counting Canadians as domestics violates U.S. law posted:http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/garber-nasl-counting-canadians-domestics-violates-u-s-law/ Puerto Rico FC president Tom Payne posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/02/06/puerto-rico-fcs-off-season-major-headache-says-tom-payne/
|
|
#
¿
Feb 6, 2017 23:52
|
|
|
the loser gets their entire league relegated
|
|
#
¿
Feb 16, 2017 02:21
|
|
|
The Rowdies bid looks very good and reasonable. Meanwhile, here in Eleventown we got ourselves a second kit sponsor! https://twitter.com/IndyEleven/status/845367055750696960 Turkish Airlines does not operate out of Indianapolis International Airport
|
|
#
¿
Mar 24, 2017 23:44
|
|
|
Rayo San Francisco is periscoping all their home games in portuguese. e.: Attendance 4133 https://twitter.com/sfdeltas/status/845815371122667521 https://twitter.com/SF_DeltaForce/status/845854281714450433 awyeahz fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Mar 26, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Mar 26, 2017 03:01
|
|
|
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/sports/soccer/didier-drogba-phoenix-rising-mls.html 39-year old Didier Drogba to Phoenix Rising! FC confirmed NYT posted:His contract allows for either one or two more seasons as a player, before moving to a role either in the back office or on the club’s coaching staff. He has also taken equity in the team, which aims to secure one of four M.L.S. expansion slots in the next three years. “I believe I can help them reach M.L.S.,” Drogba said. “I have always liked challenges.”
|
|
#
¿
Apr 12, 2017 22:31
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/NYCosmos/status/855176027290705920 https://twitter.com/ACSIndiana/status/852270013721579520
|
|
#
¿
Apr 22, 2017 17:41
|
|
|
Cosmos are doing a friendly in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in two weeks for some reason https://twitter.com/NYCosmos/status/862013491997265921
|
|
#
¿
May 9, 2017 22:54
|
|
|
 COSMOS DRAMA The This is Cosmos Country Podcast quit after Rocco Cosmos got mad at this article and called from Saudi Arabia at 3 am to yell at them http://www.empireofsoccer.com/cosmos-trip-to-middle-east-raising-eyebrows-61205/ eos posted:The club and a handful of team officials received VIP treatment for their trip on Emirates Airlines, one of the Cosmos main sponsors, less than 24 hours after New York was ousted from the Open Cup by Reading United on Wednesday night. It was perhaps the club’s worst loss since its reboot season in 2013. quote:“Last Friday night after the EoS article came out I got a phone call from Joe Barone,” Luis Hernandez, one of the founders, told EoS on Thursday afternoon. “Among other things he said he got 3 a.m. local time call from Rocco [majority owner Rocco Commissio] who was with the club in Saudi Arabia. There was a lot of anger. Part of what he said was something like if you want to talk about this on the podcast you’ll see what happens. Also a shadowy foreign sports marketing/money laundering operation is a part of the ownership group and I for one am shocked!
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2017 23:56
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/fccincinnati/status/871734261409337344 it's apparently Valencia who have a friendly with a certain NASL club on July 22. In Regina, Saskatchewan for some reason http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/july-22-valencia-vs-ny-cosmos-1.4106187
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2017 23:30
|
|
|
peter wilt is creating yet another league to compete with USL-Div 3 because in the grim future of american lower league soccer there is only war http://midfieldpress.com/2017/06/06...launch-in-2018/ quote:In April, the group held a meeting with representatives from potential clubs in 17 different markets. Shortly thereafter, Wilt and Cummins formed the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA), and have since received 10 letters of intent to join. Wilt expects that the NISA will kick off in the spring of 2018, and that 8-10 clubs will be part of the inaugural season, with other investor groups expected to take the league up to 14-16 teams for the 2019 season. The intention is for NISA to top out at 24 clubs, and then participate in promotion and relegation with other leagues. theres some insanely optimistic math here quote:Operating expenses can be as low as $1.5M per year, whereas a higher end budget for this league is $3.0M per year. We believe the lower end model can be successful for clubs that can sell 3000 tickets per game and be moderately successful with corporate sponsorships.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2017 22:13
|
|
|
one thing about american lower league soccer that i just can't get enough of is hideous gaudy renders of future mls stadiums that look like a cgi background from the star wars prequels https://twitter.com/fccincinnati/status/874404725139156992 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2017 00:29
|
|
|
what san francisco needs is more startups https://twitter.com/NipunChopra7/status/880960507762667521 quote:NC – Let me ask the question in a better way. What are the things that need to get done for the 2019 launch to happen? Deltas are averaging 2400 in attendance, they don't have a tv deal bc they stream the games on periscope, theres no parking at kezar, instead of a scoreboard they have an Augmented Reality Scoreboard App and the only marketing outside of twitter is an ad on the side of a city bus. Which is in Portuguese.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 1, 2017 15:25
|
|
|
if there is any justice in this sin cursed world fc cincinnati will win and host the san jose earthquakes in the 2017 lamar hunt us open cup final render of the USL AzTex stadium at the F1 circuit. they never render corner flags, line judges, or the correct number of players in these things 
|
|
#
¿
Aug 9, 2017 22:36
|
|
|
hopefully The Good Result that we all wanted in 2016 happens and the going concern teams (indy, ncfc, jax) are able to jump ship to usl. deltas and prfc fold, edmonton goes to csl or whatever, and the cosmos play an entire season of friendlies against the likes of valencia and al-ittihad. idk what happens to the miami fc, but nothing mls-related bc of their court of arbitration for sport lawsuit . Nothing got leaked from the nasl board of governors meeting except that railhawks owner and ussf board member steve malik voted against suing himself.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 20, 2017 22:51
|
|
|
not a good sign for sf deltas https://twitter.com/WilliamsBob75/status/920014607833591810 https://twitter.com/Hodulbass/status/919637659680514048 https://twitter.com/NipunChopra7/status/919991303148068864 awyeahz fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 16, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2017 22:18
|
|
|
happy nasl preliminary injunction hearing day. big revelations: - Deltas are folding obviously - NCFC to USL 2018 confirmed - DCFC to NASL or whatever 2018 - everybody is mad at steve malik - ftl strikers lost eleven million dollars in 2016 https://twitter.com/stevehamlin19/status/925415859488731138 https://twitter.com/stevehamlin19/status/925416343196831746 also not that it matters but either the san francisco deltas who folded on september 1 or north carolina railhawks football club who are defecting will be in the final nasl soccerbowl lmao
|
|
#
¿
Oct 31, 2017 22:34
|
|
|
the #MLS2Detroit bid released some renderings and they include a ton of detroit city fc imagery photoshopped in and the best fans in lower league soccer are not happy https://twitter.com/SergeantScary/status/926169202322497536 spoilered cause it is migraine-inducing 
|
|
#
¿
Nov 2, 2017 23:39
|
|
|
looks like the deltas sold out kezar stadium for the first and final time
|
|
#
¿
Nov 13, 2017 02:23
|
|
|
apparently indy eleven is joining usl for 2018"indy star posted:SocTakes reports, "unless unexpected changes occur, Indy Eleven will play its home games at Lucas Oil Stadium in 2018" rather than IUPUI's Carroll Stadium, which it was called home since its inception in 2014. awyeahz fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jan 6, 2018 |
|
#
¿
Jan 6, 2018 01:55
|
|
|
Indy Eleven Officially joining USL for 2018 and staying at IUPUI's IU Michael A. Carroll Track & Field and Soccer Stadium"IBJ posted:Joining in the USL could give the Eleven a better shot at someday meeting its goal of playing in Major League Soccer. In the meantime, the Eleven could have a MLS affiliation in short order. A number of USL teams serve as MLS farm teams. hope we affiliate with the crew
|
|
#
¿
Jan 11, 2018 00:20
|
|
|
 https://twitter.com/thrace/status/952987982985875456 
awyeahz fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 16, 2018 |
|
#
¿
Jan 15, 2018 23:15
|
|
|
Indy Eleven confirmed playing at Lucas Oil for almost every home game in 2018. Probably USOC and some games that conflict with Colts or other events at IUPUI https://www.ibj.com/articles/67281-...mpaign=leftrail the city owns lucas oil stadium and is letting the team play rent-free (!) for one year and also the city is covering half of the operating costs for some reason. it's going to be cheaper for the team than playing at IUPUI's stadium of blight. and the ticket prices are staying the same as they were last year in nasl. a massive deal for indy eleven, who currently have 4 players signed to contracts. ibj posted:Eleven President Jeff Belskus told IBJ he expects the team's cost to play in Lucas Oil will be similar to that of playing in the antiquated Carroll Stadium. The Eleven were paying a high five-figure to low six-figure sum per game to play at Carroll, Belskus said. And he noted that in Carroll Stadium, the team had to rent things like grandstands and the sound system for each game.  awyeahz fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jan 30, 2018 |
|
#
¿
Jan 30, 2018 00:27
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 30, 2024 15:40 |
|
|
#SaveTheRiverhounds https://twitter.com/RiverhoundsSC/status/964663662299533312
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2018 03:29
|
|