News: MLS $300 Million Stadium nearly finalized for 2013 construction start

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  1. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
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    All signs point to Yes!

    Except for this which I'll file under "whiskey, tango, foxtrot." This has "Spend it now or we won't get as much in the budget next year!!!!" written all over it. Seriously, how ********ing dumb can you get?
     
  2. QueensNick

    QueensNick Member

    Jul 19, 2007
    New York City
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    United States
    All they did to this part was gate up one of the fields and rip up the turf - nothing else.
     
  3. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

    Aug 7, 2010
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  4. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

    Aug 7, 2010
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    Soccer field construction begins in the same area where a stadium is being proposed.
     
  5. Soccertes

    Soccertes Member

    Jan 2, 2001
    Boston, MA
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    New York Red Bulls
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    United States
    Hence the name "Flushing Meadows "... Flushing tax payer dollars down the toilet.
     
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  6. T.M. Anthony

    T.M. Anthony Member+

    Jun 13, 2010
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  7. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

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  8. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

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  9. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

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  10. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

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  11. raymondleone

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    NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg could be key to Manchester City owner bringing Major League soccer team to Queens



    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/bloomberg-key-mls-queens-deal-article-1.1330323#ixzz2RzuCPqvH
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  12. The 92nd Fish

    The 92nd Fish Member

    Jan 16, 2007
    London, England
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    So when you guys going to start mobilising against the blatant Manchester City branding in place? I sure hope you're not going to stand for being a Man City marketing tool after everything you said after the Red Bulls.

    The Name (NYCFC) is fine but boy that website looks bad for the branding, kit colours etc.
     
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  13. Sachsen

    Sachsen Member+

    Aug 8, 2003
    Broken Arrow, Okla.
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    Sporting Kansas City
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    Marketing for another soccer club is much different than marketing for a soft drink.
     
  14. The 92nd Fish

    The 92nd Fish Member

    Jan 16, 2007
    London, England
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    No it's not. Either you're a B team for City or you're a marketing tool for Red Bulls. There's no problem with being owned by the same owners as Man City but they need to know that NYCFC should have it's own identity and be separate from Man City.
     
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  15. revolution1776

    Jul 23, 2009
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    AUGURI Napoli!
    Looks like you were on to something. Just a year off and different baseball stadium.
    Time to start planning your trip to N.Y.C in 2015! !
     
  16. citysoccer83

    citysoccer83 Member

    Jan 28, 2011
    Completely agreed. Please tell me the FO is not going to create a ManCity B team with NYCFC using the ManCity practice jerseys. NYCFC is fine. Call it City. But for fcuks sake give the team its own identity. Why repeat the mistakes of the past? ie Chivas
     
  17. napolisoccer

    napolisoccer Member

    NYCFC - Napoli
    Feb 20, 2005
    Napoli
    Club:
    SSC Napoli
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Thank you. In these years I have had only insults by stupid and arrogants NYC guys ( no team will be called NYCFC, but only Cosmos, no team will be in MLS before 2017, no team will be in a permanenet stadium, you have never been in NYC and therefore you can't talk with us etc ) . My ask is only one : my dream has become realty only thanks to Garber, Bloomberg, Man City and Yankees, these NYC fans ( !!! ) were always misinformed ( and arrogants... ), optimistic in the negative situations and pessimist in positive situations. They can stay tranquil, I will be in NYC in 2015, but surely not in their sector.
    Forza NYCFC !!!
     
  18. Mr.Smartypants

    Mr.Smartypants Red Card

    Jul 1, 2010
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    This news means Flushing Meadow Park and Queens is dead and another brand extention club that has nothign to do with NYC will be playing here (maybe) in a baseball stadium.

    MLs really blew this bigtime.
     
  19. Mr.Smartypants

    Mr.Smartypants Red Card

    Jul 1, 2010
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    Already on it.
     
  20. sozopol

    sozopol Member

    Jul 22, 2011
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    you are jumping the gun a bit. I would say there's a better than 50 percent chance that FMP stadium gets built. Some people would give a much better chance than that.
     
  21. Mr.Smartypants

    Mr.Smartypants Red Card

    Jul 1, 2010
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    University College Dublin
    And they'd all be fools.
     
  22. raymondleone

    raymondleone Member

    Aug 7, 2010
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  23. aetraxx7

    aetraxx7 Member+

    Jun 25, 2005
    Des Moines, IA
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    Des Moines Menace
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    United States
    What are you even talking about?! The team - the actual team with players - does not even exist yet. Everything that is up on the website right now is merely a placeholder. Something has to be up there, otherwise it's just a blank website. Read any of the articles or releases; the logo and colors have not been finalized.
    Yes there has been talk of light blue and/or pinstripes, but both could be valid kits in their own right given the right logo. Besides, there is a chance that either or both suggestions were made in jest (though I'd wager that at least one is true).
    Hey Chicken Little, see above. The sky is not falling. Yesterday's announcement was merely the first step. The owners are not idiots; they understand how to build and market successful teams. The Yankees speak for themselves and Man City went from being a middling EPL squad to a legitimate contender (and brand) in a very short period of time once Mansour bought them out. To repeat the failures of either Red Bull or Chivas would not be in line with either side of this ownership group's previous operations.
     
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  24. Mr.Smartypants

    Mr.Smartypants Red Card

    Jul 1, 2010
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    Man City knows how to build and market successful teams? You gathered that based on what, the last 4 years? They did that by dumping billion or so $$$ in the squad and infrastructure not by having some deft touch in club building or sports franchise building.

    Yankees are involved because MLS lost in Queens and in order to get 100M and a NYC team in time for the TV negotiations they needed to announce and need a place to play. Hence the Yankees involvement, they are taking a small stake in the club and will let them play in Yankee Stadium if needed...and it will be needed.

    Don't underestimate the ambitions of winning the global soccer branding war, MAn City is in play for that but behind the curb vis a vis the other major clubs. You are all pulling the wool over your own eyes if you think this franchise' is not going to be in some form a City clone and established for any other purpose other than brand extension/promotion into the North American market.
     

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