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Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Las Vegas Lights FC:

Bentai posted:

They’re a marketing gimmick wrapped up in a mediocre team. But it’s my team. I guess.
The Lights are a weird team, which kind of reflects the city itself. Their home shirt is fashioned after the bright neon lights of the casinos with a smiling face emoji on the underside, their primary sponsor Zappos has llamas as a secondary team mascot, and they're the first (maybe only) professional team in the United States to be sponsored by a marijuana dispensary. Not to mention they've got a field-side DJ and an MC who's on the mic almost all the time to try and get the crowd pumped up. The team plays all league games at Cashman Field, a 35 year old former minor-league baseball stadium in the heart of downtown. It's expected that the Las Vegas Stars 51s Aviators AAA baseball team will move to their new stadium this spring, allowing the Lights full control over renovations and improvements.

High Point of 2018:
A tie between the helicopter cash drop...
https://twitter.com/lvlightsfc/status/1038642472665010177
...and "technical director" Chelis finally getting fired. How someone can be suspended for 2/3rds of a season and still draw a paycheck, I'll never know.

2019:
After a miserable inaugural year (8 wins, 19 losses, 7 draws), the team management fired both "technical director" Chelis and his son, head coach Isidro Sánchez. The new head coach is former US national team and MLS player Eric Wynalda. Wynalda proceeded to cut all but five of the original players, while some like former US phenom Freddy Adu are still potentially in contract negotiations to stay on the team. Because of the sheer amount of blood-letting in the off-season, it would be easy to say this will be another "inaugural year" for the team, as all the players and the staff need to gel together.

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Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Syrinxx posted:

New Mexico United - 2019 is the inaugural season of our new USL team, the first actual pro team in the area since 1998. Games will be played at the Albuquerque Isotopes baseball stadium, with some aspirations by ownership to build a SSS in the downtown Albuquerque area soon. The existing PDL team, the Albuquerque Sol, is hoping to position themselves to feed homegrown talent to the United. The United stole the worst color combination in soccer from the shittiest team in soccer, the Columbus Crew. Luckily they have a kickin' rad jersey sponsor.


To repost from last year, the NMU logo would look so much better if they used a bit of red from the state flag. :(

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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https://twitter.com/lvlightsfc/status/1095835212091600896

Vegas having more fun at the expense of Toronto.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Azerban posted:

the banner says all competitions. what competition was this?

98.9991% sure this was just a photoshop to get a rise out of people on The Internet. I'll find out for sure tomorrow though.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Odds to win the 2019 USL Championship, as offered by William Hill:

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Austin held Las Vegas to a 0-0 draw during the Vegas home opener. Crowd of 8000+ which was great. Now if they can just score some goals.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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I’m new at this whole “club soccer” thing. Is it normal for supporters groups of the same team to be petty and snarky to each other?

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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I'm hoping the Lights will be able to make it through two rounds and maybe get an MLS matchup.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Lessail posted:

I hope the Lights make fielding a good team an actual priority sometime soon
:cripes:
This fuckin' team.

*late edit*
The Lights have the same number of wins as they did under Chelis at this time (6), and at this rate they're looking to barely be better than last year.

Bentai fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jul 25, 2019

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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And there is 19 for Phoenix. Oh Vegas, you had such potential six months ago.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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That's a bummer, I rather liked their team name.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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Vegas cold clocked San Antonio 4-2 to keep their playoff hopes alive another week. Next up is #3 in the west, and cross-state rival, Reno. Vegas needs at least 4 points in the last two games, along with some luck, to make it to the playoffs.

Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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With Reno beating Las Vegas 0-2, their chances of making the playoffs have all but ended. The only way in is if San Antonio loses their last game, and Vegas wins against New Mexico by an absurd amount of goals to beat the differential.

At least they won more games this season. 😐

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Bentai
Jul 8, 2004


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No MLS preseason games this year for the Vegas Lights, but I guess they're trying to arrange some sort of warmup games. Who knows, maybe they'll play the Cosmos!

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