Soccer News Overload
Just a ridiculous amount of American soccer news flooding my inbox this week and most of it is good.
MLS Expansion - Vancouver, which was announced today, and Portland later this week. DC Stadium - The soap opera continues
WPS Expansion - Philly is going to be a great franchise.
Seattle's sold out inaugural game - The whole Sounders success is the best story in MLS history.
MLS opening weekend - This seems really early, but can't wait to see if Toronto has really improved that much and if the entire Western Conference is really worse than the entire Eastern Conference.
WPS teams trimming rosters - With only seven teams, there are going to be some very good players in the W-League this year.
Michael Bradley finds his scoring boots - And he's helping save Mönchengladbach's season.
Soccer and Twitter, a match made in heaven - Only 15 years ago, it was nearly impossible to find out ANY information about soccer anywhere, now in the new age of instant information, Twitter is pushing out incredible amounts of soccer information constantly.
Red Stars first pre-season game vs. another WPS team. Follow my Twitter updates at RedStarsCEO for lineups and game updates.
Have a great rest of the week and i hope to see everyone at the IYSA Expo this Saturday in Schaumburg.
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Comment by peter wilt on March 19, 2009 at 2:01pm -
Hello Emilie. Thank you for your comment. i think FIFA would like MLS to stop at 18 teams, but they will not. MLS Commissioner Don Garber has already said MLS will add two more teams in 2012 to go to 20 teams. If there is more money to be made by expanding - and there is - they will expand more. 24 teams eventually would not surprise me. The more teams there are, the the better the chance for Montreal to be in MLS.
Expansion of MLS will take away good USL1 cities like Portland, Vancouver and Seattle. But there will always be cities for second division soccer. The quality of ownership may not be as good, but there will always be second division soccer in North America. It doesn't take as much money to own a team in USL1, so there are many more people who can own a USL1 team than an MLS team.
I wish you would be a Red Stars fan instead of a Los Angeles fan. :-(
Bonjour Emilie. Merci de votre commentaire. je pense la FIFA voudrait que MLS s'arrête à 18 équipes, mais ils pas. Commissaire Don Garber de MLS a déjà dit que MLS ajoutera deux équipes supplémentaires en 2012 pour aller à 20 équipes. S'il y a plus d'argent à faire par expansion - et il y a - elles augmentera plus. 24 équipes par la suite ne m'étonneraient pas. Plus il y a équipes, plus la chance pour que Montréal soit dans MLS est meilleure.
L'expansion de MLS emportera les bonnes villes USL1 comme Portland, Vancouver et Seattle. Mais il y aura toujours des villes pour le deuxième football de division. La qualité de la propriété ne peut pas être comme bonne, mais il y aura toujours le deuxième football de division en Amérique du Nord. Il doesn' ; la prise de t autant argent au propre une équipe dans USL1, tellement là sont beaucoup plus de personnes qui peuvent posséder une équipe USL1 qu'une équipe de MLS.
Je souhaite que vous soyez un ventilateur Red Stars au lieu d'un ventilateur de Los Angeles. : - (
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Comment by peter wilt on March 18, 2009 at 3:06pm
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Yes Emilie, i think Vancouver will be a successful MLS market. i hope it will have a WPS team some day, too. i also think Montreal will have an MLS team some day.
Oui Emilie, je pense que Vancouver sera un marché réussi de MLS. j'espère qu'il aura une équipe de WPS un certain jour, aussi. je pense également que Montréal aura une équipe de MLS un certain jour.
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