FC Cincinnati USL Superthread

Tonight's announced attendance... pic.twitter.com/1epD71yR79

— FC Cincinnati (@fccincinnati) April 17, 2016

Great crowd, shame about the result.

 

http://www.socceramerica.com/article/68470/what-theyre-saying-fc-cincinnati-gm-jeff-berding.html

“There’s a big civic piece here. Soccer is on the rise. So is our city. People see soccer as part of the future. Particularly these millennials. If you’re Procter & Gamble and you’re recruiting millennials, this is a sport they embrace. It is one of the calling cards of a progressive city.’’

-- FC Cincinnati general manager Jeff Berding

 

Ownership has done just about everything right and people have responded. It is night and day compared to previous efforts in Cincinnati.

Also, the city as a whole has been recovering from dark days of the 1990s with projects beautifying areas and people moving back in making it feel far less like a ghost town. Good times.

 

so just how much of a role has the Mayor played here???

 

Mix of economic factors and the council and mayor getting initiatives done. For example, the riverfront downtown area use to be a wasteland, and over past few years has been renovated to be a beautiful park and people come visit. The city has become more appealing and I know lots of young people moving into neighborhoods used to be desolate or unsafe due to being affordable and all sorts of restaurants have followed suit.

Example of this is Rhine Haus which bought an old empty building because the street car line is being built there. Rhine Geist (the beer they brew there) has been a major success and is now available all around at local markets and stores. Die Innenstadt does watch parties there for away matches making the club tied to the ascendancy of business and communities.

In 1996 all of this would have seemed impossible to locals.

 

He's played a role in pandering to the suburbs, and trying to make the streetcar a failure. I can't wait for him to be out of office.

He's friends with FCC's GM so he acts like he likes soccer

 

Jerry Springer making a comeback??? He actually tapes his stupid show here in Stamford...so I can ask him if you want...lol

 

I hate coming in late on a conversation, but I this is the internet and someone is wrong.
Berding was only a city councilman 2005-11. He did work for the Bengals for several years, but he was not in politics at the time of the stadium deal.
You're thinking of Bob Bedinghaus who was a county commish, and is still Mike Brown flunky thanks to his efforts in getting the stadium deal passed. For Bob I'm hoping for a painful and embarrassing demise.

 

You're right. I always get those two confused


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Pretty crazy to me, but article linked below has a video (have to scroll a bit) of Corbon Bone on Channel 12 News doing a breakdown of a couple plays.

http://cincinnatisoccertalk.com/week-fc-cincinnati-april-19/

This is surreal for someone who grew up never seeing soccer on local news.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/19/fc-cincinnati-show-strength-in-numbers-for-mls-push/

"We have tarps around the stadium to reduce the capacity to 20,000 but the other night we were sold out and were selling tickets behind the tarps and to the side of them," Berding adds.

"The next thing we could consider would be to remove some of the tarps on the lower sections to sell more tickets. Is that something we've been talking about this week? Yes. Is that something we would have the ability to do in the future? Yes.

"Right now we've trying to convert a lot of ticket sales into season tickets - last week people who came the game for the first time bought season tickets. If we can go from 5,500 season tickets to 7,500 season tickets that gives us a better evaluation for opening up other sections.

"If you sell 10,000 tickets on game-day it's much harder to make that adjustment."

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The reduced capacity was initially to help avoid issue of having a large stadium being 1/4 look so poor to a viewer. The encouraging part is discussions that concern may be unfounded given demand and ability to increase capacity in a given week. I also like mentioning we're at 5,500 season tickets and new goal being 7,500 to help secure tickets sold and not being as reliant on single match and walk ups to know what to expect.

 

Pretty easy to remove tarps in a timely manner though...just ask the thieves! HA!

I really like what FCC is doing. I had my reservations about the team on the field, but I hope they continue to compete. Still a long season left. They have the ability to pick up some game-changers though, their player salary budget is tops in USL.

 

I FCC can get the defensive lapses fixed, they'll be the best team in the East, IMO.

 

http://cincinnatisoccertalk.com/fc-cincinnati-breaking-records/

Good discussion and talked to Payne (one of the leaders of "The Pride") and he discussed how supporter membership has climbed thus far.

Pre-season - 36 members
First Match - 160 members
After Second Match - 250 members (and counting)

Lot of talking about how new everyone is to this and learning a lot each match with hopes of better organization to create a block of unified singing over mix of 2-3 songs at once in the Bailey.

 

Big win yesterday for Cincinnati coming from down 1-0 to win 1-2 in Toronto. Omar Cummings finally saw some action and made a big impact with the game winning goal.

Also, Hildebrandt incredible double save made ESPN Top Ten.



Skip to 1:52 to see play 3, great saves.

 

I was surprised by the win on Sunday. Especially after another defensive cock-up that allowed T2 to score.

 

Clean sheets will likely be rare, thank goodness for Hildebrandt coming up huge. Definitely a concern going into Wilmington match.

 

While not the most exciting development, the club announced some adjustments to parking policies due to larger than anticipated crowds causing back ups in many structures. Essentially closer structures will be restricted to passes to reduce traffic in the area. Even with this suggested again to come out early Saturday as large crowd is once again expected.

http://www.fccincinnati.com/nippert-stadium-parking-update/

Personally I get there so early (hours before KO) that did not notice the issue. I can say hoping more merchandise and concession workers as those lines at half time or after the match have been really long.

 

any news on tifo for this weekend? if there's a group out there organizing all that who should I get in touch with?

 

The tifo design session happened on the 26th at 6:30PM at 656 East McMillan Street. If you're interested I'd reach out to Die Innenstadt and The Pride for future matches.

 

Supposed to rain all weekend from what I've seen, but this does make it encouraging that have another 14,000-16,000 range crowd. Should be a fun day even if we're all wet.

 

Tough result, felt we should have come out better and been more focused after penalty save. Couldn't convert opportunities late and end with a draw.

11,000+ for tonight, I think the constant rain killed walk up crowd, think we saw roughly the floor attendance after seeing the ceiling last match. Hopeful next match have nicer weather.

 

If you still pulled 11,000 with rain, thats inpressive. Plenty of MLS teams can only muster that.....

 

The crowd in Chicago (Bridgeview) today was pathetic...

 

11,000 for the weather they had in Cincinnati for a game against a fairly unknown (to most Ohioans) team. That's impressive.