RIP PFC

Well there are Tigres and UNAM Pumas in Mexico. Tigre in Argentina. Grasshoppers FC in Switzerland. Wellington Phoenix in Australia. Hull City Tigers in EPL. Teams in Africa that use Leopard or Leopards in their names. You are right there are no official teams with wolves or lions in their names that i know of but using animals in official team names is not as rare as you think.

What I think is overused is naming teams with repetitive names like Phoenix FC or FC Tucson or FC Edmonton etc. You can always add other "traditional" foreign monikers like Racing, Royal, Athletic, United etc. Personally the only traditional names in US soccer are those used by teams from the 1920s to 1980s.

 

Congrats on staying in the league. Us here in Sacramento were lloking forward to making the trip.

 

From the PDL thread:

Could this be Phoenix? I am thinking it is another place based on the "amateur opportunity in a region that needs it" as Arizona already has FC Tucson and Salt Lake's Academy, but I could just be reading too much into it.

 

Could be. I've heard it's a possibility. But I'm sure that by month's end - when the announcement of new owners is supposed be made, remember - we'll know.

 

Where do you figure the rest of the world got them from?

 

November 2, 2013:

Was that GMT?

 

Despite the "later this month," I always assumed that there would be no word until after the USL owners meetings in the middle of this month.

 

That is because you are not new to this game.

 

I never really paid much attention to USL, or NASL for that matter, until Phoenix FC was announced. So it took me less than a year (I think the exact moment was when they allowed Phoenix FC to play at 'nationally recognized' Reach 11) to realize that USL is a half-baked operation. Kicking out BDR did gain them a little respect, but rumor is 2 of the BDR guys will still be involved with the team. (No offense to the players, coaches, support staff, owners that have it together, etc. in USL.)

 

It has its moments, certainly.

 

Hope that the new ownership group gets it together and has better luck this upcoming season.

 

No details, but this seems positive.

We're alive. #PhoenixFC #goodnews

— Dev (@DevonGGz) December 4, 2013

 

Hope this news is good for Phoenix fans. It will be hard for the new ownership to do worse than the old ownership, unless they are mostly the same ownership....

 

He's been posting krap like that since the end of the season. But yeah, PHX FC should have an announcement this weekend or at the ownership meetings next weekend.

 

Any evidence of this or is it just more hopeful speculation?

 

The lack of offseason communication is unacceptable, the twitter account hasn't said shit since halloween. How are they supposed to gain outreach support when they literally are "silent" in an offseason that could be used to gain ground in a very large market.

Wow. Call me an idiot, but wow.

 

These are the people who didn't have a watch party for the US/Mexico qualifier that was four days prior to their home opener.

These are the people who couldn't get scarves available to buy as Christmas gifts last year.

These are the people who put out a table with marketing information at a preseason scrimmage at Reach 11 and then had their person manning said table pack up and leave when the game started.

Timing isn't exactly their thing.

 

Simply amazing how these ppl have this large sum of money to invest in a soccer team, yet are so clueless how to run it. Even the new ownership(?) or even the USL office who is possibly guiding this ghost team, couldn't they get some intern to at least run the twitter account, or office secretary(?). Or yes, like Kenn mentioned, get some freakin scarves or something on the website for fans to purchase. Hell, if I have time in my very busy daily schedule to run a half-assed Boise soccer social media campaign, couldn't they find SOMEONE to keep this team marketed (even half-assed).

Simply not communicating with the fans is a very very very bad thing to do.

Anyways, here is a picture from the AGM....picture LITERALLY tell a thousands words.

https://twitter.com/CactusPricks/status/411613179098066944/photo/1

 

If they really had a "large sum of money," that might have covered some of the problems. But their lack of it made it worse.

And they don't have an office secretary because they don't have an office. They don't have interns. Even when they did, their stuff was half-assed.

It really was a nightmare all the way around. The only good thing was the stadium when it was in full configuration. That really was a good D3 environment. I enjoyed it. Peoria is closer to my house, but I would have gotten season tickets if they were back in Tempe and had the full stadium.

 

That picture from the AGM proves nothing at this point except that there was a table for Phoenix FC and no one was sitting at it at the moment the picture was taken.

Like Kenn said, they lost the one thing that they had going for them (Sun Devil Soccer Stadium). I doubt I'll buy season tickets again even with the 30% discount me and other STH's were promised for screwing us over so badly last season. That assumes they will actually follow through with their promises, which history suggests they won't.

 

I'm cynical.

Then there's Matt.

 

I doubt the 30% discount will be honored. Isn't a new ownership/management group taking over the team? I thought that was the statement from the league.