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You have given us an easy one today. Derby County. One of the founding clubs of the English league. They are the Championship this year Also, the Chicago Fire played against them in one of the Fire's first friendlies in 1999 (summer after winning the Double), when Derby County were in the EPL and the Fire could still be considered a professional soccer team. Sadly, those days are long gone for both teams!
Also, the USMNT team played them at the "old" Mile High Stadium that same year. The first time I saw a national team game. The US were 2 - 1 winners. Goals by Eddie Lewis and Ben Olsen.
That was a double-header with a Rapids match IIRC, which led to the Rapids being near the top of the attendance charts in 1999.
If San Diego can sign both of those players I would imagine you can add another half million to the total attendance from home sellouts next year. Although they would be looked at as retirement league signings at 32 & 33 with their academy system already in place, they will be off to a great start.
Over the weekend, Major League Soccer surpassed 11 million in 2024 attendance, reaching that figure for the first time in league history, and doing so with 16 matches and nearly two weeks left in the regular season. The figure beat last year’s league record of 10.9 million. In years past, the survival of both MLS and the NWSL were in question at various points as both attendance and revenue numbers were shaky in many markets. Those rocky periods are increasingly a distant memory now. “When I started this journey many years ago, I never thought the league would be where it is today,” MLS commissioner Don Garber said earlier this year, upon hitting the 25th anniversary of his tenure. “It speaks to the resilience of the sport in our country.” From the launch in 1996 to today's league in 2024. What an enjoyable journey for all of us soccer junkies!
Thirty years later and not one original team logo left, including the league shield. Sounds like retro games are coming in the future.
Well actually the Crew changed and changed back. Also in the 29 team logos the Revolution have the old logo and not the current one.
Klopp joins Red Bull as "head of global soccer". I wonder how this will impact the Metrostars. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...o-football-as-red-bull-head-of-global-soccer?
Correct. Kicking off Season 30 is the retro uniform game between D.C. United with first season Deutschland Eagle crest versus the San Jose Clash in their original home kit with fourteen different colors. Get it done MLS HQ
The Clash’s original colors were horrible. No color scheme, lousy logo , terrible marketing and it was all because of Nike’s need to be in the spotlight.
@Goodsport knows the story about how Nike came up with the first MLS uniforms and logos for that inaugural 1996 MLS campaign. The leagues heads wanted nothing to do with the old NASL names and logos so instead, they came up with a horrid and crazy marketing scheme.
The San Jose Clash playing at Spartan Stadium was taken from Clash of the Titans. They thought the kids would like it. speaking for all 90s kids .... no one liked it. My God, what were they thinking?
The Bats also had cool uniforms once they ditched that mucous colored Nike abomination. What I never got was the font they used. Very off-theme. Fortunately, they had the coolest man in the world running the show out there. Great fans, good team, they had everything except an owner. Even that might not have killed them since San Jose had dreadful...everything. But SJ also had Landon and won the Cup, so the owners felt they couldn't axe them and picked TB instead. A real shame.
They didn't have an owner. That was the problem. Just think, if a local businessman had taken on the project he'd be worth $500 million now.
That 2002 MLS AGM also saw 5-year extension to the ABC and ESPN contract formation of Soccer United Marketing acquisition of TV rights for the 2002 and ’06 World Cups incentive system for soccer-specific stadiums
The creation of SUM or Soccer United Marketing was a brilliantly thought-out plan which significantly improved MLS. I believe at that point or 2001 or 02 the league was about to fold. Not sure if it was Don Garber, Phil Anschutz, Lamar Hunt or Bob Kraft but whomever it was, deserves a medal!