Well, no. Normally, a player like Corona would have been on that large allocation list. But the MLS article says this: In other words, the Galaxy put a discovery claim on Corona a long time ago. Sounds like Brice Arena noticed him around 2011 and, as the article says: If they hadn't claimed his rights, some other team could have, and eventually he'd have popped up on the Allocation List (he played in the 2013 Gold Cup) which makes a player ineligible for a discovery claim. Anyway, seems legit to me. But it's not just because the Galaxy bought out Gio.
Yes, that is Lockhart Stadium, home of the Miami Fusion, as well as Miami FC and just about every iteration of the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers from inception until they folded in 2016. Looks like it's been vacant since then.
I think it's premature to put Miami into the "other teams thread." I wonder what the chances are that they really play in MLS next year. It's been 5 years since Beckham kicked off his effort to get a team there. And, what, two celebratory announcements by MLS? They still don't have a place to play next year; they don't have a stadium site; no training ground. Initially, I read this as saving Lockhart. But of course that's really not what it is. It's tearing down an abandoned stadium and putting up a new, temporary modular stadium on the same spot, all in under a year. What could possibly go wrong? Miki has been covering this pretty well: https://socceresq.com/2019/03/14/the-ft-lauderdale-fight-for-lockhart/ Beckham and Mas now want the Lockhart site, but FXE Futbol already submitted a far more detailed and thoughtful proposal to Ft. Lauderdale to use the site to build a 9,000 seat stadium for a USL Championship club. So Inter Miami CF is supposed to take the field... somewhere, in less than a year? The miserable state of things in south Florida almost makes PSV's effort in Austin look good by comparison. Almost.
Lockhart is on a great parcel of land... 75 acres of property on Commercial Blvd, just off I-95. Its pretty much dead center of the Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach metropolitan area. Its probably the largest contiguous plot of land down there. Proposing to redevelop Lockhart as part of a larger development could be a selling point. Since Mas got involved, Beckham's Miami project has become two land development projects that include a soccer team. MLS is a means to get a good land deal.
Seattle up 2-0 over Chicago, in Chicago, after just 15 minutes lol. Jordan Morris set one up and scored another. He's made a great return so far this year as a wide forward.
Stadium looks sparse, indeed. Though I'm not sure today is the day to point that out looking at the predictions for our attendance.
Orlando is an absolute joke, but their commentators might actually be worse. Holy shit they are bad, right up there with other terrible commentating teams in SJ, NE, and Chicago.
Every time I get tired of Dwight and Neil I’ll watch some ESPN+ of other teams and I’m thankful our production isn’t that bad.
Yeah, personally I like Neil, Dwight is meh. Two PBP guys together is always less than ideal. Like you said though, there is some real crap out there, so I can't complain too much I guess.
RSL commentators were driving me crazy. They spent literally half the game complaining about Silva’s penalty. The ref fvcked up, but VAR fixed it. So that’s good, right? You’d think that is how it’s supposed to work. But no, Dunseth just kept going on and on and on and on about it. In the end, the correct call was made. It was super annoying.