How rude of me. Thanks. Now we can come up with some truly great anagrams!!! Inter, Real, Olympique, United, Football, Club so you have IROUFC and any city initial you want to use. Lets start with "United Football Olympique Club Inter Real" UFOCIR U-FOC-IR How is that for a start? I didn't even have to put a city's initial in there. Come on people you can do better than me I know it!
You seem to be missing the point. FC is not a "europoser" name. It's what the team is, for God's sake. FC = Football Club. Is it not a football club? You are the prime example of the type of soccer fan in the US that MLS is confusing by marketing the FC as a moniker.
I don't know if you have seen any new MLS adds but they go something like. Football. Futbl. Soccer. Whatever the name, the game is the same. So it is a football club, don't be daft.
Who told you that? In Argentina, it was actually the other way around. Racing de Avellaneda existed well before they decided to put the football team's names and logos in the cars at the TC 2000 which is their higher local brand of racing. And I would really like to know the Car Racing Teams that Racing Santander, Lens and the Belgian one (I forgot) have.
"prime example"? I don't think so. Unless being a Whitecaps fan since the 1970s and hoping for the day when a serious league would develop in NA is typical? Good to hear. I know what FC stands for (SC = Sports Club not Soccer Club in Europe by the way). My "poser" comment is directed at MLS who have a fear of all things that sound original. For gods sake the Seattle Sounders is a great name and I hope they keep it. In Europe the local football club is it for sports! In NA you have NBA, NFL and MLB so you need something other than a city name with a tag stuck on it. If places want to stick a FC or SC or United fine but I think a lot of the old NA names were great! I hope Philly go with the "Independence" because that is a strong tie to the city. So call it the Seattle Sounders FC/SC/United but the 3 they suggest are all pretty lame. I would take Alliance if I had to but some Seattle fans talked me into signing up and voting write-in for Sounders and believe it or not a Caps fan helped out some Seattle fans. When I think Seattle I think Sonics and Sounders (in that order), Vancouver = Canucks and Whitecaps, Toronto = Make Beliefs (but that's another story) I have nothing against sticking the tag at the end but keep the history especially when you have a great history like the Sounders do.
Then what's the point of calling a soccer team "Racing Whatever" then? Racing what, bathtubs? Shopping carts? Wheelbarrows? Unless there is something lost in the translation, it makes no sense, which is all the more reason teams in the US should stay away from names like this. If you have to explain it, you shouldn't use it.
Perhaps horses? The things that were around and being raced when these clubs were, you know, founded and all...
Teams called "Racing" usually started out as racing clubs back in like decades and decades ago. I noticed Racing Santander has a green flag (for a race start) in its shield. Interesting is that I do not see Japanese or Australian clubs really trying hard to sound Euro... there are some cases but it's not a league-wide thing.
They all do, because that's what they are. It's not part of the name. Games are not listed as Reading FC v Liverpool FC, Fulham FC v Chelsea FC etc
i hate seeing clubs in America named FC. it's like bowing down to our euro counterparts and saying we are inferior to you...will you please educate us?
Huh? The international name for the game is Football. These are Football clubs. How is that bowing down to anyone or saying we're inferior? You do realize that soccer is derived from Association Football, right? It's not as original as you think.
I'd take a plain professional "city name FC" over something that sounds like a indoor soccer team. I don't really see whats so great about having a clunky USL- NASL-comatose league name.
Also, in America, SC means "South Carolina," so you can't just tack it onto a city in some other state without confusing the hell out of a lot of people. For those who like "AFC," it means "American Football Conference." I think this is specifically why we haven't seen any official talk of going with SC or AFC in the branding of any new teams. Prominently featuring "FC" is not necessarily the ideal scenario, but given the reality of sports in America, it is a good compromise that distinguishes a local soccer team, is a nod to tradition, leaves the fans the chance to come up with a nickname, and does it all with an abbreviation that isn't already associated with something else by the American public.
like you said there are a couple FC teams in Japan, just like there are a couple FC teams in America. Also Japan is wierd, a lot of their team names are based off of Spanish or Italian words and the others are founded by big manufacturing companies.
I dont think people are going to see Los Angeles SC and think theres a place called Los Angeles, SC. Give people a little credit.
I dont think people are going to see Los Angeles SC and think theres a place called Los Angeles, SC. Give people a little credit. And the few that do get confused are probably the ones who think Paris is the capital of London, so they dont matter anyways. Maybe we should be careful with FC as well. Someone gets a ticket with Seattle FC they may think its a plane ticket for first class eating to seattle.
The survey says...... Seattle Sounders FC Thank goodness they had a write in category! See you in the big league (soon I hope). Sounders, Whitecaps and Timbers in the MLS? 1 down, and 2 to go!
Hmmmn. So, we have several "FC" teams (which, as has already been pointed out, all the teams are... football clubs), one United (why just the one?? and didn't Garber just say there would be no more?? But fear not, MLS fans... we've not yet begun to tap into that other rich Euro resource... "Rovers"... Who will be (the) first (six) to the counter with that one??
FC is good only if the FC is not part of the daily usage of the name. Seattle Sounders FC aka The Sounders Vancouver Whitecaps FC aka The Whitecaps. I can understand where people are coming from. If we start calling teams Sporting something something or Real something something, that is plain emulating other leagues and telling the world that the way to validate the league is to copy other leagues. What we need is something that is natural for North American. We all want something to call our own. If we use SOCCER rather than FOOTBALL, I am fine with that... you know why? because the SOCCER name has a REASON, a story behind it. As long as the quality of play rivals that of the Europeans/Rest of the World. Then the names will automatically gain respect.
With three FC's, I'm waiting for the head shaking moment when they add an SC on the end of a club's name.