Any rich people worth 20+ million willing to lose lots of money investing on a soccer team in Chicago? This would be the best time to invest (not that it is a good idea).
You do know that this is a discussion board, not the want ads of Craigslist? I can't believe you started a new thread for this.
How about the Red Stars form a Men's team, have Peter run it, and they can play at Lane Tech. Not sure where the money comes from. Pro/rel?
The magic of pro/rel will fix everything and cure cancer. Well most expansion threads are basically the same thing, just wishful thinking; I just kept it real with the title.
Wouldn't it be cool to start a NASL team that the city loved and grew over time to be great? Too bad it won't happen. MLS already has a team. So, no one is going to support a team that has no chance to get in MLS.
Wasn't there some weird UIC soccer stadium design plans... If they went ahead and built that, and wanted to rent it out to a pro team to help pay for the costs then a NASL team could make sense within the city.
Would not doubt they would be called Sting. The league owns a few of the old leagues names so I can see them adding a lot of the old names in the future. All the league would have to do is add the Detroit Express also and we have another "historic rivalry".
The NASL is already experienced at going up against Classic Ink, so, go for it. Last I checked in with the Stern family, they had no plans to fight anything pertaining to the use of the name. It's been 26 years since the Sting went away, it doesn't mean anything to them anymore.
Sure. Why not? Could see a club surface in one of the NW burbs like Arlington Heights or Hoffman Estates...
Just the problem of a place to play....and someone worth $20M to own them....and all that. Nowhere in Arlington Heights to play. Nowhere I'm aware of in Hoffman Estates, which is waaaaaaaay the hell out there. Lisle? I loved living in Lisle. But that's not a D2-worthy facility if you have ambition.
Thinking NW burbs just because of how remote it is compared to Bridgeview. Northwestern's probably too big of a stadium, but the field would be better than most. The ballpark the Kane County Cougars play in (Fifth-Third?) has the right capacity (7,500 or so?) and somehow I remember the ballpark angles weren't as severe as some of the newer ones...
True that, if there was a small (cheap) enough stadium with a 5K+ capacity in the Chicagoland area the Chicago Red Stars would be playing in it.
Schaumburg. Just sayin' ... if the NASL doesn't make a conscious effort to do it, you can be sure that Tim Holt will. The reason the time has come for soccer to be played at ballparks has to do with several positive factors...... 1. Grass Field 2. Family friendly to the point of having lotsa "soccer moms" as part of their fanbase already. 3. Many are fairly new and have splash-pads and all sorts of built-in imenities you won't find at a high school football stadium. 4. Most modern, nicer high school football stadiums have artificial turf. 5. The artificial turf in most high school football stadiums have heavy handed field markings. 6. Beer.
I truly can appreciate that a soccer fan would want a NASL club to compete with MLS club in their home town. MLS single entity has outlived its usefulness. Chicago and New England have slum owners. I still reluctantly support the revs but at the end of day, I don't feel good about it. I wouldn't hesitate to switch allegiance to local NASL club in heart beat even if they couldn't compete with the revs if the owners tried. Although I do believe that the NASL will eventually succumb to folding, I am routing for their success. Furthermore, the NASL is one of several major motivators that keeps MLS some what honest in doing the right thing. NASL is good for American soccer- you don't see that! Instead of bashing NASL, maybe you should route for its survival. At the very least, you have to admit NASL existence makes US cup a lot more relevant and worth following. If the NASL does fold, US cup is really going to become full fledge joke and to me that would be tragedy.
As a fire fan, I think having a NASL team in chicago would be great for the fire and for the sport in the city. The rivalry would be great, and the fire would be forced to put a good product out there. I think there are enough people in Chicagoland to support 2 teams. If the NASL were smart they'd find somewhere in Chicago proper to play.