NASL in Hartford

Hartford, Only One Pro Soccer Choice Adds Up

http://midfieldpress.com/2017/10/28...-hartford-only-one-pro-soccer-choice-adds-up/

 

USL looking at a potential team in 2019:

http://www.uslsoccer.com/news_article/show/851480?referrer_id=2333971

Hartford Sports Group Makes Case for Dillon Renovation
11/2/17, 8:30AM EDT
Public-private partnership would potentially bring USL to city for 2019 season

 

Shocking that Midfield Press would extol the virtues of the non-USL bid.

 

That’s the only kind of bias there is, isn’t it?

 

3 years in the slammer:

http://www.courant.com/community/ha...dillon-stadium-sentencing-20171204-story.html

 

Bill Reese‏ @ReeseCommaBill Dec 9
Brass Bonanza in the USL? Somebody called "Hartford Sports Group LLC" has trademarked the name "Whale City FC" That, or NYCFC to E. Hartford?@MidfieldPress @SocTakes @theUSLshow

 

http://www.courant.com/community/ha...illon-stadium-development-20180104-story.html

State and city leaders will move ahead with a plan to redevelop the badly aging Dillon Stadium, with a goal of gaining approval from government agencies by February and completing the facility by March 2019. But this time, instead of allowing the soccer team’s owners to oversee construction efforts, the Capital Region Development Authority will manage the project. As much as $7 million in public funds would be committed to the enterprise. A new soccer team, backed by the United Soccer League, is expected to begin playing at the Colt Park stadium in spring 2019.

 

Since NASL to Hartford isn’t happening, can we put this thread out of its misery?

 

A bit premature

 

+1

It’ll be academic in a week or two when the court puts NASL out of its misery at long last.

 

Jenna Carlesso‏Verified account @JNCWriter 14h14 hours ago
Dillon Stadium Redevelopment Moves Forward

http://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-dillon-stadium-20180409-story.html

 

This thread needs to move to the USL forum and be re-titled.

And while we're at it, the @BigSoccer mods needs to clean up a lot of the lower division threads. All the NASL teams that moved to USL need to be on that board and all the expansion teams that are now clubs need to be moved from USL expansion to the main USL board!

 

somebody put in a request last week to at least move both Indy and NC over to the USL...probably not a top priority, but I suspect it will eventually get done.

 

Rob Stone‏Verified account @RobStoneONFOX 2h2 hours ago
Massive day for soccer in Hartford.
Excited to play a small part in this new venture.
Stay tuned.
#colors #name #music

 

The NASL sure gave it a college try, didn’t they?

 

Hartford City was going to be one of those NPSL teams that were going to be on scholarship in the NASL that the cartel was so afraid of, presumably.

With the USL grabbing the best true stadium solution, Hartford City is going to continue to be what it is.

 

Will be interested to see how Hartford does as USL team.
I had actually thought if MLS had gone to 32 teams at some point, this should have been a market to look at.
NO NBA-NHL-NFL-MLB in Hartford and sitting in between 2 MLS teams in NY, 1 MLS team in Boston area and heck, even include Montreal to the north, Hartford would have some good geographical rivals for traveling fans.

 

Something really was missing from the USL's bid for Dillon...

https://www.courant.com/politics/go...-dillon-stadium-complaint-20181120-story.html

"A total of $47,500 in campaign contributions were made in recent months by Hartford Sports Group (HSG) lead partner Bruce Mandell, his wife and their college freshman daughter — and now questions have been raised about the legality of those donations, which went to the state Republican Party and its unsuccessful gubernatorial nominee, Bob Stefanowski.

The questions loom as the latest complication in a $14 million, mostly state-funded project to rebuild and revive Hartford’s long-dormant Dillon Stadium in Colt Park. Dillon is slated to become the home of a new United Soccer League expansion team, Hartford Athletic, which Mandell and his partners at HSG are forming with the intention of starting its season of play in the spring."

 

I loved the prawns on Twitter last week when that story broke who suddenly developed amnesia about the shady investors who were to own the NASL's Hartford entry not that long ago.

 

Like politics, its only bad when the other side does it.

 

https://www.courant.com/politics/go...0190216-spxseydb2vhy7mey53ltrmrnga-story.html

The state investigation has expanded, but it might be for moot, as HA will be a city, not a state, contractor.

Mandell really should have spent 5 minutes of the phone with his attorney before making a campaign contribution.

 

What a long, strange trip it’s been for professional soccer in Hartford...

On Hartford Athletic's home opener ... https://t.co/7C8FYITE9O

— Mike Anthony (@ManthonyHearst) May 5, 2019