I know what you're saying but Miami's been notoriously bad despite an area dominated by Cubans and Venezuelans. When was the last time Seattle or KC have won a World Series? Miami's won 2 in the last twenty years.
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2013 Major League Soccer |OT| Pick your side, it's time for War
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I know what you're saying but Miami's been notoriously bad despite an area dominated by Cubans and Venezuelans. When was the last time Seattle or KC have won a World Series? Miami's won 2 in the last twenty years.
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I think you guys should give Miami a fair shake with this.
The community here has blown up since 2005. Soccer is very popular now, with tons of places to play 5-a-side including Brickell(near the Heat stadium) lots of leagues people are in.... Brazil vs. Honduras set the record at Sun-Life that was previously held by Barca vs. Guadalajara. I personally have been to the majority of all matches that have happened in South Florida since 2009, Gold Cup, USMNT friendly, USWNT friendly, Colombia Mexico, the International Champions Cup this year... All of which had good attendance.
The NASL team has alright attendance, I could have done better but I'm south of South Beach and that team plays in Ft. Lauderdale.
Beckham I think for the most part knows what he's doing, tons of footballers have condos in Miami already, good investors, big names...
Also there has been an influx of EPL fans, with tons of pubs doing watch parties for big games, same with USMNT games.
The community here has blown up since 2005. Soccer is very popular now, with tons of places to play 5-a-side including Brickell(near the Heat stadium) lots of leagues people are in.... Brazil vs. Honduras set the record at Sun-Life that was previously held by Barca vs. Guadalajara. I personally have been to the majority of all matches that have happened in South Florida since 2009, Gold Cup, USMNT friendly, USWNT friendly, Colombia Mexico, the International Champions Cup this year... All of which had good attendance.
The NASL team has alright attendance, I could have done better but I'm south of South Beach and that team plays in Ft. Lauderdale.
Beckham I think for the most part knows what he's doing, tons of footballers have condos in Miami already, good investors, big names...
Also there has been an influx of EPL fans, with tons of pubs doing watch parties for big games, same with USMNT games.
Yeah but will they support a MIAMI team? I don't think Miami is a bad soccer market but like New York it's a bunch of transplants and immigrants. There's not much civic pride. Unless I'm wrong but that's my experience from visiting my family in Hialeah fairly often.
If Beckham makes it flashy enough I say yes, Lebron being involved helps. Big names from Europe in their twilight a la Becks, Henry, Keane will also help I think.
First official season will be a big one for sure no matter what.
They can transition into the inaugural season of the Blitzball league.
Rafa=FedKilla
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Yep. Dont even need a stadium like Garber was calmming for in NYCFC. Brahs can just play in baseball field.
They said South Beach. They'll build a field on the roof of the American Airlines Center
I'm usually insanely hard on Miami, but I feel like a soccer team down there would be more successful than pretty much every other pro team in the city combined. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see higher regular attendance than Heat games. Demographics tell a big story.
If that were true no MLS team would have a problem selling out.
I had no idea Portland had such a big latino population.
But that's exactly what I'm saying. Salt Lake, Portland, Kansas City, and Seattle have almost no latino population yet sell out. New York, DC, Chicago, Dallas, LA all massive Latino populations that don't sell out nearly as often as the aforementioned. Demographics don't tell the whole story when it comes to MLS. Lowest attended team is in fact the Mexican knock-off. While they all have their reasons for not selling out regularly, it shouldn't be a problem to based on their catchment areas of soccer-loving peoples no?
We're white as fuck. 76% of our population as of 2010.
Rafa=FedKilla
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I'll give Orlando props for having unique colors. Wish they sold hoodies. Rawlins can fuck off for being such a cunt in Austin.
He has no real ties to either city, right?
His goal was to take his team to MLS, he didn't think that would happen in Austin, it has happened in Orlando. He didn't have the necessary financial muscle, there's no way this rich Brazilian owner gets involved unless it's Orlando. I can't really blame him for preferring to own a MLS team over a USL Pro team.
Amibguous Cad
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Indeed. For whatever reason, MLS hasn't done particularly well capturing the Latino population. The demographic most important to expansion seems to be young white professionals - hence why the Cascadia expansions were so successful. Hipsters, not immigrants, have been the league's backbone. We should probably try to fix that, but that's the way it is right now.
I live in a town that's 80% Latino. Nobody respects the Red Bulls because the quality of play is subpar to them. The range of channels you can get on DirecTV is huge so rather than watch the Red Bulls they're fine with seeing Atletico Nacional, River Plate, Penarol, Emelec, Barcelona (de Guayaquil).
Then the Central Americans who have foregone their shitty national leagues scoff at MLS in comparison to La Liga which is their adopted league of choice.
I'm not sure you can sell them on atmosphere because if you've ever been to games in Latin America like I have you'd see that we pale in comparison.
The good news is we have a massive upswing in quality of play from even 5 years ago. Just look at highlights in 2008 compared to now. Now think of where we can be in 5 years.
Shit, I thought the soccer hotbeds of Harrison, Kearny, and the Ironbound section of Newark would catch onto the Red Bulls being that the stadium is in close proximity.
But now that I spend a good amount of time there all I hear about is Benfica, Porto, Corinthians, Flamengo, Atletico Mineiro.
I guess it makes sense. They play a completely different style from the European leagues and MLS/EPL go hand in hand.
But now that I spend a good amount of time there all I hear about is Benfica, Porto, Corinthians, Flamengo, Atletico Mineiro.
I guess it makes sense. They play a completely different style from the European leagues and MLS/EPL go hand in hand.
ActStriker
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Revs purchased the contract of Jose Goncalves and exercised his 2014 contract option.
Just for perspective my parents are just as big Red Bulls fans, they're the ones who got me into soccer.
My dad is from Cuba so he has no team to follow from back home.
My mom's team in El Salvador is Aguila, and their quality of play is worse than ours.
Thus, they're MLS fans.
My friend, whose parents are also from El Salvador aren't MLS fans. Why? They met at university in Chile and they
still watch Universidad de Chile every weekend.
Let's not forget the Mexicans who are inclined to hate on our league just because of the rivalry.
So for now I think MLS understands their main demographic is the young adult.
Amibguous Cad
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Revs purchased the contract of Jose Goncalves and exercised his 2014 contract option.
Defender of the year, IMHO. And fantasy all-star, incidentally.
And this is why it makes no sense to pay a defender like Omar Gonzalez (or Rafa Marquez) DP money...
Duane Cunningham
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I AM SO DAMNED EXCITED FOR TOMORROW. I follow SKC closely, but I've never been to the park since they built it two years ago. That changes TOMORROW! Ticket in hand, and it's in the Cauldron too!
Come on Timbers, pull a France on Sunday.
I'd say good luck, but I want Portland and Houston to be the Cup so I can go see it in person.
sazabirules
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I hope tonight's match isn't a snoozefest like the first leg. KC please knock out Houston.
perfectchaos007
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Houston scores!
edit: that lead didn't last
edit: that lead didn't last
The Culture Vulture
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Watched the game and enjoyed it but between the pointless break for international play and the fact that I had just watched that awesome Merseyside derby from earlier in the day my MLS hype was/is very low considering there are only two games left in the season.
True. They should have played last Saturday.
If they played the final at Arrowhead, would it sell out?
Capacity for Arrowhead is something like 75k, so there's no way we could sell it out fully. If you're talking the lower two levels only, I don't even know if we could manage that. The attendance last night was 21.5k including SRO tickets. I think you'd get at least 30k, but even 35k would have to be the maximum upper bound. That might be enough to make it look like a full stadium for TV. They'd have a riot on their hand with the fans though if they tried to move it.
Heineman once said they designed the stadium to be expandable and they can add something on the order of 8k seats. He said they didn't have a timeline to add it now. It would be nice to know what the thought process is though. Another season of sellouts? 3 more? 5?
Heineman once said they designed the stadium to be expandable and they can add something on the order of 8k seats. He said they didn't have a timeline to add it now. It would be nice to know what the thought process is though. Another season of sellouts? 3 more? 5?
Have no pity that his team played shitty
I look forward to it. And if it was a wrong call I will definitely call it as such and admit I was wrong.Sorry but no. Go home and watch the video.
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