"We will be the first league with a professional sports team in Austin." - MLS Commissioner Don GarberSays more to come in the months ahead.#MLS2ATX #LosZanateshttps://t.co/ECxHqF0OZa— Austin Anthem (@AustinAnthem) December 7, 2018
Don Garber, in his opening remarks: "MLS will become the first major sports league in the culturally dynamic city of Austin. We anticipate being able to share more details on the progress in Columbus and Austin in the months ahead." #MLS2ATX #SaveTheCrew— Chris Bils (@ChrisBils) December 7, 2018 Confirmation from the Soccer Don himself. Everything important happens on friday ;-)
Someone also thinks the stadium leasing contract was signed today, no authentic source on that topic yet.
Happy MLS Cup! Hope you're able to sit down and watch the future of professional sports in Austin. One day we'll be able to walk, bike, scoot, train and petty cab to watch the MLS Cup final in one of our own neighborhoods. We'll pre-game at one of the many bars and beer gardens already surrounding Mckalla Place, March along with 3772 of the best supporters in the League to the match, Chant with 20,000 other El Tree fans standing at our seats, and celebrate afterwards whether it be on Rock Rose, Downtown, or enjoying live music at the Celis Biergarten and the Mckalla Place Ampitheater. Most of all, something I look forward to one day, Austin will get to come together and have its very own Champions Parade. Celebrating the effort of OUR team, who work year round to embody the spirit of austin. Then we take our spirit and win at the international level.
Snark or not, it came up organically in a Twitter exchange between Austin FC peeps. I think it's generally liked and embraced.
The founder of Villa's Army (El Tri Supporters) here in Austin was the first to use it. I think its great! Alot of others do too. PSV will be majorly successful here in Austin, and I'm pretty sure that upsets "other groups" more than anything else.
You have to remember, we are 35% Hispanic here and that culture in a lot of ways spans across a lot of demographics in Austin. Most of us root for both because we have close friends and family from Mexico. Now we rib each other and banter, but it's all in good fun. "El Tree" is embraced because it's a fun pun to fuse together what our community actually looks like.
Very much this. As someone with deep Tejano ancestry (paternal abuelo's line: http://mymendozas.com/pedigree.php?...15&parentset=0&display=standard&generations=6), I find it such an amusing embrace of Austin and Tejano/Latinx culture and really do love it.
Wasn't the University of Michigan nickname from "snark"? Also North Carolina Tar Heels was "snark" was it not? It happens I guess.
Yes, that's the objection to it. Associating your US club with the Mexican national team won't win you many friends in the US soccer community. But you be you.
It will here. You are sounding extremely immature and close-minded. Our neighbors, friends, husbands and wives are from Mexico. This is what Austin (and Texas for that matter) is. You don't have to like it. We also don't dive a damn what the "US Soccer Community" thinks of us.
If anything the association with the El Tree nickname helps the Mexican soccer community become more involved with american soccer. And if the US Soccer community had a problem with Mexican National team the wouldnt have opened a second franchise in Mexico's second home (Los Angeles)
You may find attitudes a bit different down here. They're our neighbors, family, friends.. Sure our countries are rivals on the field, but we know the people well. They are us and we are them so to speak.
Thank you for letting them be them, cause I don't think they were going to be them til you said that. Now Austin can move forward with being Austin. I mean after all, it is their team.
In the Columbus thread, timon19 and POdinCowtown are discussing this topic a bit. Here's what POd had to say: This one just speaks for itself. Ignorant fool. You seem to assume that all of the Hispanic people in Texas were born in Mexico. Or that the children of immigrants won't still claim the sports allegiances of their parents' home country. And who are you to place restrictions on whether immigrants can still support their ancestral teams? I read somewhere recently in this debate, I don't remember where at this point or from whom, but it stated that most people tend to think of other cities or regions as just slight variations of their own. I think someone from Columbus speaking about Texan/Hispanic/Tejano/Mexican-American culture the way you are would do well to do your research to understand how Texas and Austin are different from what you think they are before you speak anymore on the subject.
Name calling is against the terms of service. I've made no assumptions about where people were born. My mom is from Texas for what it's worth (Dallas area) and my grandparents from Beaumont. I think it's fine for citizens of Mexico on either side of the border to cheer for El Tri. And if they live in Austin also cheer for Austin FC. But the ones who come to the US and become US citizens should assimilate and among other things cheer for the US. Given that one of the purposes of the founding of MLS was to strengthen the USMNT, it seems very odd for fans of a potential MLS team to be cheering for our biggest rival. I'm not sure how representative the Austin posters in this thread are, but they don't do their team much credit. You sound like MECHA members.
Wow. People who think and say things like this in general and among other things are really poor examples of what America aspires to. Shame on those folks.
You assume we take pride in Mexican culture and our shared heritage because "we know or are related to" Mexican immigrants. As if the only Hispanic people in Texas are immigrants. So yeah, you made a pretty big assumption. I know many Texans who support El Tri and then maybe support USMNT after that. And there's nothing you can do about it, despite how things "should" be, according to you.
Yes, as stated by your fellow posters unlikelyfan19 and loonytoony. Maybe you guys should get your story straight. You are right of course that I can't do anything about it, nor do I intend to.
Be it known that PO's viewpoint is his own and not an Ohio one. The whole assimilate and leave your customs behind is hogwash. That said, I don't believe anyone should cheer for El Tri.