right? lol well one of the bloggers had this little piece https://www.bigsoccer.com/soccer/bill-archer/2013/05/10/field-of-schemes-too-rise-of-the-neocosmos/
MLS Announces New York City FC https://www.bigsoccer.com/soccer/bill-archer/2013/05/21/mls-announces-new-york-city-fc/
website: http://www.nycfc.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newyorkcityfc twitter: https://twitter.com/nycfc
Looked at the website. Man City colors, Man City crest as the little browser icon, links promoting Man City's site and their tour. Does this mean no unique identity for NYCFC, or is all this temporary? Anyone heard anything? Will the two clubs have similar crests and colors like Chivas USA and their parent club?
Considering that it was just announced, I would guess most of it is just a place holder. The colors might stay, but the badges (Yankees logos abound as well) will change as the club starts to develop. For reference, when the Minnesota Wild and AHL announced that the Houston Aeros were relocating to Des Moines, a website was quickly put up with a hodgepodge of Wild, Aeros, Iowa Stars, and Iowa Chops pics. It just seems like that is the way business is done these days...
yeah, but i must admit this is a rollercoaster of emotions today. i am happy that NYC is finally looking like we are getting a team, but i am not pleased that the team seems to have no identity. Having the same colors is one thing, but the website basically looks like a shrine to ManCity. Please tell me this will change over time. and please tell me that they will have some level headed US-based person helping with the decisions. I feel like while im sure the FO of foreign clubs know the sport, they think they can just plop anything in front of US eyes and we'll watch. Thats fine if we are the B team, but just dont be as stupid as to call us the ManCity B team.
All I can say is congratulations guys. Forget all the BS about the owners, it's finally happened. I'm just happy it did.
They better get rid of all the MCFC stuff on their websites. I am happy for NYC but something tells me the team might end up being an ad for ManC :/ I hope I am wrong though, I hope they go the logical way and use any colors but City's and try to build an identity. NY has so much potential it doesn't need City's shadow to be big. Congrats , all the best
Honestly, I don't think the MLS is stupid enough to experiment with another Chivas. Also, Man City have some of the best marketing people money can buy, and they know for sure that for NYCFC to be big it needs its own identity. I'm hoping for the colors to be blue/white/orange, same as the NYC flag and Knicks. It would be a unique template too.
For those of us around the country, we see a big concern in the ManCity connection, and worry about NY2 becoming a ManCity farm team. But for people in the area where they want to build their stadium, in the heart of Mets territory, ManCity may be the least of their problems. Local opposition to that stadium was already a difficult hurdle without adding the Yankees to the mix.
I agree completely with the colors and identity . Hopefully mls realizes this. Oh and no monster energy sponsor , that would be cruel and unusual lol
Maybe sky blue won't necessarily be the color Simon Evans@sgevans I asked Ferran Soriano about team colours etc - no decision made on that yet but will be other 'synergies' between two clubs
Manchester City's Soriano envisions 'beautiful football' in NYC http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/soccerusa/id/2424?cc=5901
I'm hoping Houston, so the two Texas teams would be in the same conference again. I'm more concerned what this means for the 2014 schedule, assuming NYC FC starts in 2015. I really hope they drop the wildly unbalanced format they have now and use something that more closely resembles a balanced schedule.
SHEIKH MANSOUR & MAN CITY COMPLETE MLS CLUB DEAL http://www.sport360.com/football/sheikh-mansour-man-city-complete-mls-club-deal Sport 360° is a daily sports newspaper based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
MLS giving up on Flushing Meadows stadium? http://www.empireofsoccer.com/new-york-city-fc-spells-death-of-mls-flushing-meadows-ambitions/
That article makes some good points. But on the other side, now nycfc has leverage. They can tell the mets do you want x million dollars for allowing us to use the parking? Or should we walk and find a different site and you get nothing. They can say to the local soccer people, if you support what we want to do here, please show it. Otherwise you might lose the opportunity. If it is no longer being rammed down their throats, but rather presented as an opportunity that they can take our leave, things could change. But at this early stage it has always been mostly about the mets opposition, and they may be just bitter enough to keep rejecting it.
The chances of Houston moving? Very high. Chances of a balanced schedule? Zero. Especially as 38 games in a regular season is just too long for us. England can do it, but English teams are built with so much incredible depth it's ridiculous. Also, you may note, the English season is longer than ours, I believe. Just in terms of days and weeks. With the playoffs and all that, we'd end up starting in February and ending in January...
Bingo. I think the closest thing we'll get to balanced will be everybody in your division twice (home and away) and everybody in the other division once per season. But that only makes 28 games, so I'm sure they will figure out something to make the schedule more "full" until the league grows again.
Which is something we'll get to as expansion continues. I'm undecided on my own opinions regarding expanding past 24 teams... Ha, random tangent, but I was thinking about what league expansion would do to the USL, where the reserve teams are playing. I understand the league was wanting to shift away from the affiliate model into the straight "play your second team here" model, which is cool. But if MLS gets really big, wouldn't that mean the most terrifyingly bloated lower division ever? Hm. My actual reasoning was I was just wondering at what point NYC will have to fulfill these in-place mandates for academies and reserve teams.