We just wanted to take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year to all of our readers. Thank you for a great 2010 and we look forward to analyzing the business of American soccer in 2011. It will be our third season of MLS and WPS coverage and we hope it will be our [...]
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Yesterday we recapped our top five 2010 stories from the world of American soccer business. Today, we thought it worth taking a look at the coming year to predict the big business stories for 2011. We’ll dispense with the list format, but here are some thoughts on what will make headlines in 2011. The Womens [...]
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It is the season for lists, so here is our list of the top five soccer business stories in the United States. Let us know y0ur thoughts….what did we miss? 5. WPS Struggles Two years ago, WPS launched with great fanfare, including the signing of world star Marta, a relationship with PUMA, a television relationship [...]
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Time for our last stadium update of 2010. It has been an exiting year for the development of soccer specific stadiums in this country. Perhaps the signature stadium moment for 2010 was the opening of Red Bull Arena. The new structure met and exeeded expectations in almost every way and has become the showpiece edifice [...]
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Perhaps the biggest business story of the year was the CBA negiations between MLS and the Players’ Union. Fans waited anxiously as the league and players headed towards the season without a deal. As the date to start the season got closer, the parties agreed to submit their dispute to mediation. As the mediation process [...]
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Over the next few days, we will craft some new posts and re-post of some of the most popular articles from 2010. We’ll start with our interview with Union VP of Marketing, Cara Joftis. The Union had a remarkably success first season, and this interview from January provided some interesting insight into the team’s marketing [...]
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The most recent Sports Illustrated presented the magazine’s review of sports media, but the issue exemplified the repeated and varied soccer coverage in SI. Soccer featured prominently throughout, including an interview with new ESPN hire Ian Darke, and a discussion of ESPN’s “The Two Escobars”. The magazine also offered a summary of the Akron victory [...]
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As part of its ongoing (and successful) effort to keep MLS on the minds of fans during the winter months, the league has announced the home openers for all of the teams. We thought we would take a quick business look at some of the initial match-ups. For the first time, the league will open [...]
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Toronto FC has announced that it has sold its entire season ticket allotment for 2011. In order to fill out its season ticket roster, the team transferred 700 members from its waiting list to replace tickets that were not renewed. Given the state of the team, lack of a coach, lack of success on the [...]
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After an exciting day of action on Wednesday in the re-entry draft, there are a number of smaller stories that are generating interest in American soccer. We’ll start in WPS, where the struggling league has announced that the six remaining teams will conduct the college draft on January 14. The four round draft will be [...]
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