June 15th, 2006, 10:17 AM
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Go Suns
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Location: Phoenix az
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Mls team
Why don't we have a mls team here in phoenix?
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June 15th, 2006, 10:23 AM
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Fool In The Rain
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Most MLS teams (all but one now, I think) are either building or already have soccer-specific venues, in order to make the team viable financially. After building the new Cards stadium as well as the Glendale Arena, you are going to be hard pressed to convince citizens to help pay for another venue. That is probably the largest hurdle, nowhere to play. A new stadium is highly unlikely to be built, an MLS team would probably not agree to play in Sun Devil Stadium, and I dont think the Cards stadium rollout tray can fit a soccer field, can it?
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June 15th, 2006, 12:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Phoenix
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YES IT CAN! The field is plenty wide for World Cup Soccer, so there is a very good chance Phoenix will get an MLS team. The dimensions for the field is 234 feet wide x 403 feet long and 39 inches tall. It will be natural grass preferred by World Cup Soccer and the NFL.
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June 15th, 2006, 12:25 PM
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imploding
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Location: Goodyear
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i want rochester to get an MLS team
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June 15th, 2006, 01:02 PM
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Ancient
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Location: Coastal Georgia
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Originally Posted by Prindel
YES IT CAN! The field is plenty wide for World Cup Soccer, so there is a very good chance Phoenix will get an MLS team. The dimensions for the field is 234 feet wide x 403 feet long and 39 inches tall. It will be natural grass preferred by World Cup Soccer and the NFL.
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MLS won't go to a city without at least the promise of a soccer specific stadium. The new soccer stadiums normally seat under 20,000. Their reasoning is they'd rather turn people away from a sold out smaller stadium than play in a half full huge one.
Phoenix is not a good location for MLS as the season is in the summer and a smaller domed stadium just isn't feasible.
World Cup Qualifiers are a real possibility though but it won't be versus Mexico as the USSF is smarter than that now and will only play Mexico in Columbus or Foxboro for qualifiers. Trinidad, Costa Rica, Jamaica or someone else would be a likely choice though |
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June 15th, 2006, 08:28 PM
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Fool In The Rain
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Originally Posted by Prindel
YES IT CAN! The field is plenty wide for World Cup Soccer, so there is a very good chance Phoenix will get an MLS team. The dimensions for the field is 234 feet wide x 403 feet long and 39 inches tall. It will be natural grass preferred by World Cup Soccer and the NFL.
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I stand corrected, I thought that I read somewhere that the tray could not hold a soccer field. Unfortunately for Phoenix, the MLS seems to strongly prefer soccer specific venues, and with a handful of cities willing to do so looking for an MLS team, I dont see Phoenix getting a franchise any time soon.
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June 16th, 2006, 06:36 PM
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The Commish of MLS recently said that Phoenix is not in the immediate running for an expansion team, but that we would continue to host MEX games as well as Team USA games for now on. The soccer specific stadium thing is a big issue. Most teams either have one or are building one, and the only way we would get one is if they had the retractable roof because of the heat. If we can convince MLS we'll draw 60,000, we're gravy, but of course we know thats a pipe dream.
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