Atlanta named expansion franchise for 2010

Discussion in 'Atlanta Beat' started by Reignking, Aug 11, 2008.

  1. leviathan

    leviathan Member

    Mar 5, 2008
    cheap seats
    Club:
    --other--
    From Dan Lauletta's League Lowdown for Aug. 24, in the "Free Kicks" section near the bottom (link here):
    That's quite a tease...
     
  2. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    I noticed that, too. So they're not apparently going to play in the REMAX stadium like they said earlier? And what's the new stadium? If it's going to "turn the league on its ear", I would expect it to be big, but I can't see them getting Turner Field or the Georgia Dome.... eh, who knows?
     
  3. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    Atlanta will stump the world and play in New Jersey.
     
  4. kool-aide

    kool-aide Member+

    Feb 1, 2002
    a van by the river
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And, frankly, I'd hope they'd avoid playing in some cavernous place they'll never fill but have to pay a ton to rent. Wasn't there some vauge news about Kennesaw St. building a facility and the possibility that the Beat might share it? Perhaps "turn the league on its ear" is more about having/building a stadium of their own. Except, of course, STL already has their own place so that isn't exactly a new thing.
     
  5. Reignking

    Reignking Member

    Feb 16, 2005
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    From what we've heard, they'll be using the new Kennesaw State stadium.
     
  6. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    A university stadium, eh? How big will it be? And are we expecting a gridiron like at Harvard? =-P

    -edit-
    Wait, "new" as in currently being planned/constructed or "new" as in the 2002 Soccer Complex there? b/c that place looks tiny.

    -edit2-
    Oh, this place? 8.3k sounds really great!
     
  7. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    That was my first thought as well. I'm going with the Jersey rumor.
     
  8. Bonnie Lass

    Bonnie Lass Moderator
    Staff Member

    Lyon
    Norway
    Oct 20, 2000
    Up top
    Club:
    Olympique Lyonnais
    Did they ever actually send out a press release about Remax Stadium? I never heard anything officially about it, but I did see something on Wikipedia.
     

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