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- TraderStav
- May 19, 2006
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It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down
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Hi here's a drive-by effortpost on Detroit City FC:
I assume in terms of NPSL, Detroit City FC is an organization whose reputation has largely outstripped the actual size and budget of the club, largely on the back of their Northern Guard Supporters. Easy to love, easier to hate, they're a driving force behind DCFC's reputation.
 
2018:
Coming off of a spectacular playoff run in 2017 ending in a national semifinal appearance, 2018 was a year marked by notable organizational progress and growth moreso than league results, as they finished 4th of 7 (5-4-3) in conference play, far outside a playoff spot. Buoyed by a schedule that included Liga MX's Club Necaxa, Serie A side Frosinone Calcio, and Bundesliga 2's FC St Pauli, they played for an average 5,946 fans including a new record attendance of 7,887 against Frosinone at Keyworth Stadium.
St. Pauli was hands down my favorite weekend of the year, where they made one of two US tour stops with a weekend full of events, including a panel on community-oriented soccer, a meet-and-greet, as well as a Rise Against concert the night before the match. At the end of the day, St. Pauli is still a pro club and DCFC never stood a chance on the pitch, losing 6-2. The result hardly mattered, though, as it was a surreal experience getting drunk with a bunch of German footballers who came here to see our little club. Very cool.
  
2019:
During the offseason, the club opened the Detroit City Fieldhouse and Clubhouse, a facility with two indoor turf fields as well as a bar and restaurant overlooking them both, all run with the same ethos that guides the club itself.
A planned jump to the NPSL's new professional league has resulted in some major changes, as well. The departure of an owner to head up USL Hartford, a new head coach, a partnership with one of the larger youth clubs in the region, additional stadium renovations including new turf, plans to continue an amateur squad and start a women's team, promises of fair, living wages for professional players, etc. In addition to intra-club matters, they'll be gaining some semblance of competition from the new USL League One team, Lansing Ignite.
They have already announced three returning players for the professional roster: Club legends Cyrus Saydee and Tyrone Mondi alongside former Pittsburgh Riverhound Bakie Goodman. Excitement among the fanbase is at an all-time high, and expectations will be even higher.
Just reminded me that I never picked up my season ticket for this year. Damnit
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Feb 6, 2019 10:53
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- TraderStav
- May 19, 2006
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It feels like I was standing my entire life and I just sat down
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[sperg]
I know I'm a broken record on this topic but I really wish the people choosing these names would, instead of either 1) aping European or Latin American club naming conventions that they don't understand, or 2) using mindless and meaningless adjectival names that don't mean anything to anybody, would instead spend a few days, weeks, months or even years actually studying the history of association football both in the USA and worldwide, as well as the history of the community they are choosing the name for, and come up with a name that has some kind of historical connections to association football history and/or to the history of the community in question, as well as, hopefully, being a fairly unique name within the context of USA soccer as it currently exists.
In other words, do we really need any more teams named United, FC, SC, or City, when other soccer club names with some history behind them are being virtually unused today in MLS and USL: Celtic, Rangers, Rovers, Wanderers, Juniors being some common examples, but, I dunno, why not get even more obscure: Academicals, Skolars (actually a rugby league club name IIRC, but I like it!), Thistle, Skeeters (an old ASL club), Torpedo, Wednesday, Arsenal, Hotspur, etc. If they are going to copy European club names they should at least mix it up a bit and add some more variety to the club names on the MLS/USL league tables.
And if they are going to use initial letters let us see something besides just FC or SC over and over again: why no AFC (Association Football Club), SFC (Soccer Football Club - 'soccer football' once being a common term used in the USA), AC (Athletic Club, or Associazione Calcio), and so on.
And there's nothing wrong with reviving old NASL and ASL club names, or reusing common nicknames from other North American sports which aren't currently being used in MLS or USL: Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my!
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Lions and Tigers are both cursed teams from Detroit.
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