MLS In Minnesota Is Great, But They Have To Change The Name Of The Team

Minnesota United FC makes some sense because twin cities rivalry.

But Atlanta United FC doesn't make much sense to me.

Atlanta Football Club, simple, clean, clear...

In Europe because they are assotiation/community clubs - not franchise clubs - and multi-sports clubs this elements are included.

United, Sporting, Union, Athletics, Association and Club the most used terms. Olimpic also reflects multisports teams.

 

Yeah, no. No one cares. How many sports does Manchester United have? Wigan Athletic? Everton Football Club?

 

Agreed. If the name translates to butts in seats, a cool logo, and a team I can proudly hate in a decade or two (Columbus! Columbus!), who cares what it's called?

 

LA City, Orlando City, LA City.
DC United, Atlanta United, Miami United (if Beckham has his way).

Maybe teams shouldn't have the same colors either.

 

Is your point that there aren't multsport clubs elsewhere?

Glasgow Rangers - motor racing
Real Madrid - basketball
Atlético Madrid- motor racing, handball
Red Star Belgrade - basketball
Maccabi Tel Aviv - basketball
Paris St-Germain - handball
Ajax of Amsterdam - baseball
CSKA Moscow (ice) hockey
CSKA Sofia - (ice) hockey
Fenerbahçe - basketball
FC Barcelona - basketball
Panathinaikos - basketball
Lazio - rugby union
Grasshoppers of Zurich - rowing, (ice) hockey, handball, lawn tennis, court tennis, field hockey, curling, rugby, squash, unihockey, beach soccer
RSC Anderlecht - motor racing
Sparta Prague - cycling, basketball, (ice) hockey, rugby union
APOEL Nicosia - basketball, volleyball, futsal, table tennis, bowling, cycling, archery, swimming, water polo
Legia Warsaw - basketball
SD Budućnost Podgorica - basketball, volleyball, handball, rugby, shooting, judo, boxing, tennis
Olympique Lyonnais - motor racing
FC Porto - basketball, billiards, boxing, cycling, handball, roller hockey, swimming
C.S. Maratimo - futsal, track and field, figure skating, fishing(!!), karate, kart racing, motor rallying, rhythmic gymnastics, roller hockey, rugby union, swimming
Boavista - chess(!!!), gymnastics, bicycle racing, futsal, volleyball, rink hockey, boxing



and on and on and on

 

No. That wasn't my point. You seem new around here, so let me explain, I make the point I make, and not the point you want me to.

The terms you used are not exclusively used for multi-sport clubs. So, your entire argument is wasted.

 

What was your point?

 

True, but it still sucks as a name.

 

Twin Cities Guardians FC or Minnesota Guardians FC

 

And? Can't we discuss alternative names? How about No Name FC? ahah

 

Portuguese humor, everyone! Drink it in...

 

Wait, so there will be three teams in MLS using the name Minnesota?
I may be crazy, but it would seem to me that Atlanta, DC and Minnesota clubs, united or not, will be referred to as Atlanta, DC and Minnesota regardless of what comes next. This is certain in conversations outside of their home bases, and inside of those bases to whom the United refers should be pretty obvious.

 

Some English and Welsh clubs who changed their names

Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to Manchester United
Ardwick FC to Manchester City
Stanley to Newcastle United
Swansea Town to Swansea City after Swansea received the Queen's charter and became a city.
Fulham St Andrew’s Church Sunday School FC then Fulham Excelsior to Fulham
Everton FC and Athletic Grounds Ltd to Liverpool
Everton St Domingo’s to Everton
West Bromwich Strollers to West Bromwich Albion
Sunderland & District Teachers AFC to AFC Sunderland AFC
Riverside A.F.C to Cardiff City
Leeds City were renamed Leeds United after a bribery scandal during WW1 and have been allegedly been cheats ever since (Brian Clough ordered their players to throw their medals for that reason).

 

Twin Cities Football Club would be, generally, sweet.

 

That's not bad at all.

 

Much like DC United, everyone knows that the Twins and Vikings and Wild and Timberwolves are teams for the Twin Cities, but none of them have that in their name.

 

It won't happen, but Bill McGuire and the rest of the Minnesota United FC ownership group should collectively tell Don Garber and the MLS front-office suits to "get bent" with regard to the renaming of the team.

Minnesota United FC's identity has been in place since March 15, 2013. As such, the team has borne the United moniker 2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days longer than Atlanta United FC has sported the name. That's 2-plus years of brand equity that Minnesota United FC is being asked to toss aside in order to appease Don Garber's desire to bootlick Arthur Blank.

Hell, Major League Soccer couldn't be bothered to register the Atlanta United FC name with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office until more than a year after Garber-and-Company had granted the Falcons owner MLS investor/operator rights. The league took even longer to register the team's logo with USPTO and reveal the Atlanta United FC identity to supporters. So, despite being awarded a Major League Soccer expansion opportunity nearly a year after Atlanta, Minnesota's MLS team was known by the United brand more than 3 months before Blank's NFL off-season Mercedes-Benz Stadium date-filler deigned to unveil its identity.

But, hey... why do right by an existing soccer club that has committed to the MLS vision of having its member-franchises play in appropriately-sized, soccer-specific stadia - a facility featuring a natural grass playing surface, no less - when you can cater to the whims of a johnny-come-lately to the sport of soccer whose MLS team will play second-fiddle to his National Football League franchise in a multipurpose, retractable-roofed, synthetic-turfed, downsized mega-stadium?

 

Wow, all that history, huh? I can see why they wouldn't want to change it.

 

Minnesota United FC's three years of existence under said brand may not strike you as being impressive, but history and heritage and tradition are cumulative. If an entity - in this case, a soccer team - is forced to abandon its traditions - including its name - on a whim after three years, than the chances of building a continuity of true long-term history and heritage are stymied.

It was under the Minnesota United FC banner that professional soccer in the Twin Cities stabilized to the point of attracting the attention of of MLS, the longest-lasting and most successful major professional soccer league in the history of the United States and Canada. Indeed, it was under the Minnesota United FC banner that the team was invited to join MLS, thus returning top-flight pro soccer to the State of Minnesota. Those are significant accomplishments. That being the case, why abandon the identity under which said achievements occurred?

 

I agree the name Minnesota United FC does sound repetitive especially with Atlanta United FC coming into the league. I feel that Minnesota should change its name but keep the loon influence on the crest if they were to change the name. The "Minnesota Loons"?