We haven’t taken a hard look at attendance in a number of weeks, but this past slate of games provides some food for thought. The “weekend” started with a small Wednesday night crowd in Chicago, where approximately 13k saw a scoreless draw at Toyota Park. The mid-week games continued on Thursday night with the usual [...]
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Six weeks have gone by since our last stadium update, so we thought it time to take a look around MLS to see how some of the stadium projects are moving. The first bit of news comes out of San Jose, where owner Lew Wolff announced that the team has designated renown 360 architecture as [...]
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Last night the US Men played the Czech Republic in our backyard before more than 36k. Because we were at the game last night, we thought we would revisit some of the business aspects of the match in East Hartford. The total attendance was extremely impressive and the crowd was dominated by fans of the [...]
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The big story in MLS is the arrival of Montreal as the league’s 19th franchise. Although the announcement is scheduled for Friday afternoon, multiple sources are reporting the news. The Impact are scheduled to start play in 2012 and will join Toronto and Vancouver as Canadian franchises. Long rumored, the move to Montreal immediately [...]
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It’s been a while, so we thought we would take a look at the construction progress at a couple of venues around MLS. We’ll start with PPL Park, where the sod is down and the stadium is two months away from opening. The Philadelphia Union provide this wonderful time lapse video of the sod installation. [...]
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Some quick hits from around American soccer, starting with DC United, where efforts are ongoing to find a permanent home for the team. We have previously written about efforts to build in various parts of Virginia, DC proper or Maryland. Now, Steve Goff is reporting that DCU is now in talks with another Virginia municipality [...]
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American soccer fans will be treated to a soccer doubleheader tonight as ESPN2 will televise both the USA/Costa Rica match and the RSL/Red Bulls MLS match. The lead in offers MLS a great chance for exposure to fans of the US Men who are reluctant to watch MLS matches. MLS can showcase its product in [...]
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We are back on our regular schedule now and thought we would start with a quick look to one of the big business stories of the week. After getting rebuffed by PG County and desperate to leave RFK, DC United is still considering a permanent move to Baltimore. According to the story from the Washington [...]
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With the Mexico/USA qualifier set for Wednesday on MUN2, we posed a couple of questions about the broadcast and the channel to Kevin Dugan of NBC Universal/Mun2 digital media. Please see his thoughts below: Footiebusiness: mun2 seems targeted to the Spanish speaking offspring of native Spanish speakers, yet this game will attract many native English [...]
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Yesterday we took a look at the expansion situation in Vancouver. Today we thought we would take a look at how things are progressing in the City of Brother Love. Click here for our previous post on the Union. The team website is up and running and established ticket prices and season ticket benefits. The [...]
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