business of soccer Stories - Sounder At Heart
Sports Business Journal Reporting MLS To Sell 25% Stake In SUM
Daniel Kaplan and John Ourand have joined together in a story to report that Major League Soccer is exploring selling a significant share in Soccer United Marketing. The 25% share is possibly being sold to Providence Equity Partners for between 125 and 150 Million dollars. It turns out big...
Lower Division News over the Long Weekend
First USLPro gets a team on the West Coast, down in LA. An odd move, as the closest team is Orlando, FL. Hard to have the regional organization that would lower travel costs. As things stand right now, the division 3 in USSF has a North East, South East and Caribbean with a team in LA. Current...
Adidas + MLS Very Excited About New Deal
So excited they sent me a press release (I am not normally on this email distro list). It is important to realize that in a bad economy that has seen sponsorship dollars falling that MLS' teams will basically be getting 50% more per year. The relationship with Generation Adidas will continue as...
Pro-Soccer in North America Expands
Yes, this is more on the TOA v NuRock battle. After the USL announcement that they would be expanding to Baltimore, to Detroit, to Ottawa and Edmonton on top of their previous plans of New York city and Tampa Bay the TOA responded with a formal announcement that they would be apply for 2nd tier...
It wouldn't be 2nd tier without Portland
Well, it looks like the NuRock v TOA saga is continuing, but only a little bit, while the USL-1 meetings are being held in Beaverton, OR this week. With the following teams certainly there - Rochester, Portland, Tampa Bay, Puerto Rico, FC New York, Cleveland and Austin. The TOA clubs, may or may...
Sat Morning Media Roundup
Having a full day off I thought I would share the links that are out there of interest to Sounders fans and those that read the site, as well as a recap of the Sounders FC weekly radio show on 710 ESPN. First TOA v NuRock is getting to a boiling point. Yep, hints of legal issues as well. Oh, and...
USL-1 no longer to be 2nd tier?
Just getting this out there, no time for extensive thoughts. 24thMinute and CBC on Vancouver and Montreal pulling out of USL. Inside MN Soccer on the fuller situation. The TOA is clearly now the 2nd tier of the sport. Not just due to market size, but also due to the quality of the organizations...
Hidden gems
Recently Steve Clare over at Prost Amerika interviewed Jeremy St Louis of Fox Soccer. It is a far ranging interview covering national teams (particularly the issues facing Canada), MLS, Sounders, the EPL and the upcoming World Cup. There were a few semi-precious stones in there, that you might just...
Turmoil is not just an American phenomena
While I have been focusing on the issues that are facing the lower tiers of the American soccer system recently, please let's all remember that our issues here are not as bad as in other places. In Scotland the Old Firm are constantly making noise about leaving the SPL and SFA for the supposedly...
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