Wiebe: Atlanta United exit Champions League, but there's a ray of hope https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/03/14/wiebe-atlanta-united-exit-champions-league-theres-ray-hope Atlanta United 1 Monterrey 0 (1-3 agg): De Boer's men exit Champions League https://www.besoccer.com/new/atlant...gg-de-boer-s-men-exit-champions-league-598619 Atlanta United’s Champions League run ended by Monterrey https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-...e-run-ended-monterrey/FwMRYri6FDewqlO8amaCOL/ Stejskal: How MLS rules shaped the Chicago Fire's pursuit of Nico Gaitan https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...ules-shaped-chicago-fires-pursuit-nico-gaitan FC Cincinnati: Nippert Stadium "going to be rockin'" for debut MLS match https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...ppert-stadium-going-be-rockin-debut-mls-match Stejskal: Seattle's five-year plan for academy shows signs of bearing fruit https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...e-year-plan-academy-shows-signs-bearing-fruit LA Galaxy history tracked, celebrated by fan living abroad https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/la...tory-tracked-celebrated-by-fan-living-abroad/ D.C. United to play Spain’s Real Betis in first Audi Field visit by a European club https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...isit-by-european-club/?utm_term=.d029652a6c51 Atlanta United receive 2018 MLS Cup championship rings https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/03/14/atlanta-united-receive-2018-mls-cup-championship-rings Chicago Fire Sign Argentine Star Nicolas Gaitan https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/03/14/nico-gaitan-chicago-fire-argentina-mls MLS Miami team plans to play 2 years in Fort Lauderdale https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...2dda3c0df52_story.html?utm_term=.b3e6e776245f MLS Commissioner Don Garber visits expansion candidate St. Louis https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...on-garber-visits-expansion-candidate-st-louis CONMEBOL decline US Copa America proposal, but "no doors closed as of yet" https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...-us-copa-america-proposal-no-doors-closed-yet
Yup, I'm even rooting for success in Austin. But I was fully Stockholm Syndromized by the time MLS {ahem} abducted the Quakes and I kept supporting the league.
Does kinda feel like a bait and switch doesn't it? But when you drill a little deeper it's pretty easy to see they have no other good options. Marlin's Park would be a worse venue than Yankee Stadium. Hard Rock is an excellent large soccer facility. But the scheduling and field conditions would be a bitch! Not to mention the Dolphins owner is not exactly friendly to the the Inter Miami group. And last but not least is FIU's Stadium. Named after MLS arch enemy Riccardo freaking Silva... I think it can work as a temporary venue particularly with the training facility on-site. I assume the stadium itself will be a USL sized stadium with additional temporary seating. Easily downsized when and if the team is able to get their planned stadium park completed.
I personally don't want an MLS team to fail, per se, but I do hope Austin never wins any trophies and that they lose so that other teams can win!
Austin and Miami should read San Antonio and Saint Louis. But Becky and Precourt are like our league's refs, blind in one eye n can't see out the other.
Actually there was a time when MLS was bending over backwards to get San Antonio in but Sinclair fought it and that was that. So they can wait ! As for St Louis they until recently never really had solid ownership groups. I understand the hate but keep in mind that if Precourt hadn't agreed to buy and at least keep the team in Columbus for a few years anything could have happened in 2006 when no investors we're interested in the Columbus situation.
Well, since HSG didn't sell the team until 2013 I literally have no idea what you're talking about. And subsequent events have proven that there were and are investors willing to buy the team. Are you paying attention? Your understanding of the facts us astonishingly fact free
Even then, not until every other team has tasted success, especially the next generation of expansion teams that PSV just shunted to the back of the queue. Says I, anyway.
Well... This is odd... It’s not season ticket renewal time and the Revolution are already taking a SSS... Could we have found the pound of flesh MLS will be extracting from Kraft for his indiscretion?? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/sports/soccer/robert-kraft-revolution.html