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August 21, 2008

Philly Releases Stadium Design

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All I can say is, now this is a nice looking stadium. Keystone Sports and Entertainment LLC, the ownership group for the Major League Soccer Philadelphia expansion team, received the initial stadium designs from Rossetti Architects. And even though it looks similar to others around the league, I think this one will be fine and dandy [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Expansion, Philadelphia Stadium, Stadium Talk, United States, sports

August 14, 2008

Galaxy Coaching Search Short List

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This will sort of go down like the Dallas coaching search from earlier in the year. Only difference will be the owners of the LA Galaxy are probably a bit clueless about who exactly they want to bring in to coach their club, and FC Dallas knew who they wanted from day one (or five [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Bruce Arena, Coaching Changes, Coaching Hires, Cobi Jones, Columbus Crew, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, John Spencer, LA Galaxy, Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution, Paul Mariner, Peter Nowak, Seattle Sounders FC, Sigi Schmid, United States, coaching hot seats, news and rumors

April 30, 2008

MLS Expansion Price Tag Just Went Up

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Want Major League Soccer in your city? Well, the price for your potential owner(s) just went up a bit. News today out of Portland says that in order for the city (and probably any other city now) to get a MLS franchise they will have to fork over $40 million. The new entry fee: at least [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Seattle Sounders FC, United States, expansion talk, news and rumors

March 28, 2008

Philadelphia Sells 3400 Season Tickets

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According to this report, MLS Philly has already sold 3,400 season tickets for a team that was only announced one month ago, and will not begin play until 2010. Just like Toronto last year and Seattle in 2009, the MLS is finding markets that are selling better and getting more support before the club even steps [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Seattle, United States, expansion talk, news and rumors

March 27, 2008

Bold Season Predictions

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Its time once again for the WVHooligan Bold Season Predictions. Most of what you are about to read are probably a little bit out on a limb in terms of actually coming true anytime in the next year but that is why I throw it out there. Last year's season predictions ended up fairly well [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle, SuperLiga, Toronto FC, United States, coaching hot seats, expansion talk, kc wizards, news and rumors

March 20, 2008

MLS Looking at Club Names

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Yesterday the MLS board of governors met to discuss a wide variety of topics, one being the naming of MLS clubs in this expansion era of the league. Seattle begins play next year. Philadelphia will follow the year after in 2010. St. Louis is seen as the odds-on favorite for a 2011 expansion bid, and Montreal, [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle, Toronto FC, United States, expansion talk, kc wizards, news and rumors

March 6, 2008

MLS Season Tickets Update - Thanks to SBJ

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The Sports Business Journal will be doing a full MLS preview this year which should be real interesting to read in the next couple weeks or so. It really has been fun to see the amount of MLS/World Soccer headlines in there go up ten-fold over the past year or so. Just wanted to pass [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , DC United, Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS, MLS Philly, MLS Seattle, Marketing, Real Salt Lake, Toronto FC, season tickets

MLS Restricting Away Supporters

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One of the more hotly discussed items yesterday was the talk about the MLS restricting club supporters for away games this season. A great article over at Pitch Invasion got the topic going yesterday with plenty of other sites chiming in on the issue. What seems to be the issue is that clubs like Toronto and [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle, Toronto FC, United States, kc wizards, news and rumors

February 29, 2008

Slow News Leap Year Day

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Really a TGIF kind of day for this Hooligan. Not a whole lot going on at the moment as most teams are out of the country or on their way out of the country for some pre-season camps. Couldn't come at a better time for me since the lady-hooligan in my life has her birthday [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Dallas, General Soccer Stuff, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Toronto FC, United States, birthday, camps, country, hooligan, kc wizards, lady, life, moment, news and rumors, tgif

February 28, 2008

MLS Philly: The Press Conference! Sons of Ben Video!

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A good 1-2k showed up for the festivities at Turbine Hall, the whole investors' group was readily accessible, and a couple things were said that wasn't covered fully in the MLS Press Release. Continue below - first though, here is the video of Nick Sackiewicz addressing Sons of Ben at Dark Horse Tavern on Tuesday night. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, Jay Sugarman, MLS Philly, Philadelphia, Rivertown, Sons of Ben

Deadline: Teams To Get Cap Compliant

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While we have seen a heist of a trade go down this morning between San Jose and Toronto, other clubs are either watching the MLS in Philly announcement or are trying desperately to finalize deals to get salary cap compliant by Monday's deadline. Monday is the MLS deadline for teams to be compliant with the salary [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, Rosters, San Jose Earthquakes, Toronto FC, United States, compliant, deadline, desperately, finalize, heist, kc wizards, news and rumors, philly, salary

February 27, 2008

Philly Announcement Set For Thursday

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Just when I thought I wasn't going to hear about it today, I get a friendly phone call to tell me otherwise. The MLS will announce Philadelphia as the league's 16th team at 2pm on tomorrow at Turbine Hall in Chester, PA. MLS commissioner Don Garber and members of the Philadelphia expansion group will be in [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chester, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia, United States, compet, drives, expansion talk, members, news and rumors, phone, sons, turbine

February 26, 2008

MLS Philly: Getting Closer, Ives takes a look at Philly

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Ives Galarcep does a great piece on the prospects of a Philadelphia Major League Soccer franchise. I will be heading to a Meet the Owners party tomorrow for it. Hopefully, I'll bring back some pictures and a few concrete facts........ Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, MLS, MLS Philly

February 22, 2008

Set the Name: MLS Philly

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Now that we all know that Philadelphia will be named the MLS's 16 club, its time to start figuring out what to call them. With the 15th club set to reveal its name in the next couple of weeks up in Seattle (word has it they want to be called Emerald City Greens or something [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: 15th, MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia, Seattle, United States, eith, emerald, expansion talk, greens, nailed, news and rumors, reveal, sons

February 21, 2008

MLS Expansion: Philly Announcement Next Week

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Sons of Ben rejoice! The MLS has tentatively set Feb. 28 as the date to announce that a new expansion team would be awarded to the city. It was reported around last week that the league and the group leading the charge to get an expansion bid in Philly came to an agreement on the bid [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, United States, announce, awarded, date, expansion talk, news and rumors, rejoice, reported, sons, sources, tentatively

MLS Philly: CONFIRMATION!!

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Ives has been wrong before, but let's be honest, he rarely is...and is easily one of the most credible places to go for news in the US soccer world. But if you don't believe Ives - the Philadelphia Inquirer works too. We will know the details on February 28th...and this will be your place to go [.. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Chester, Expansion, MLS, MLS Philly, Rivertown

February 20, 2008

MLS Philly: Sons of Ben getting more foreign press

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"Tim Timminy, Tim Timminy,Tim Tim Teroo / We've got Tim Howard and he says fuck you!" The Guardian UK's Steven Wells profiled the Sons of Ben as they await the announcement - which could come any day now (coughendofthemonthcough...). Hell of a good read... Membership is now 1,200 strong and over 2,500 season ticket 'intentions' have [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, Guardian UK, MLS, MLS Philly, Rumors, Sons of Ben

February 13, 2008

MLS Philly: “The Stars are Aligned”, Expansion Inching Closer

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I know, I know. Yet another article about how the deal is so close, but not quite there yet. This one is a little rosier. And the coverage on the deal in the Philadelphia Inquirer has now gone - dare I say - daily? (well, three days in a row that is). Or does Domenic Pileggi's editorial count as [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, MLS, MLS Philly, Philadelphia Inquirer

February 8, 2008

MLS Philly Lands Top Executive

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Getting the MLS to come to the city of Philadelphia took a huge step forward today with the announcement of hiring of Nick Sakiewicz as CEO and operating partner. You New York fans may recall Sakiewicz from his time with the MetroStars, where he was named the top exective in the league for two years. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: MLS, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia, United States, announcement, expansion talk, hiring, operating, partner, recall, saki, sakiewicz

February 1, 2008

MLS Philly: It’s Much More than a Stadium

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"It's like the people from the Publishers Clearing House, and they've come down here and they say: 'You know what? You just won half a billion dollars.' I'm ready to put a shovel in the ground. That's Chester Mayor Wendell Butler's intake on receiving the funding from the state that they needed to move one step [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, MLS Philly, Rivertown

January 30, 2008

MLS PHILLY MOVES CLOSER!! Still not certain, but we’ll see Thursday!

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Don Garber, sign us up! All signs are pointing to us getting the $45 million now... Sons of Ben - I want to hear from you on this - any info on Thursday's event? NOTHING IS CERTAIN. But unfortunately, my hopes are now officially up. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , MLS Philly

January 28, 2008

Update on MLS Philly: “Harrah’s Is Down the Street”

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The quote says everything. It's "not a yes or not a no", but there still is hope that the decision will be passed down by the original January 31st deadline. Instead of provoking a bid for a bad day, instead of re-summarizing the article, read on for yourself. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , MLS Philly

December 13, 2007

MLS Daily Sweeper, 12.13: A Contribution to MLS Underground’s New Direction; Stadiums; Collapsed Rumors; Parsed Trades

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- For those who haven't seen it already, MLS Underground is under new management and, with that, is headed off in a new direction. And this isn't so much a sharp right-hand turn as it's a three-to-four-point turn with an e-brake slide. Rather than deal in its former insider-dish/rumor-hawking stuff (and I'm still baffled by [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Bobby Boswell, DC United, Jared Borgetti, Kansas City Wizards, MLS, MLS Philly, MLS expansion, Major League Soccer, Muriej Zurawski, Stadium News, Zach Wells, media, supporters groups

November 15, 2007

MLS Seattle sparks talk of MLS Philly

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Funding Progressing Slowly MLS Narrows the Field Couple things we find out from these articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Should know by the end of the year whether or not the stadium will in fact be built. In turn, we will know if MLS Philly will go through. MLS Philly will most likely play in a temporary venue (like [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, MLS Philly, MLS expansion, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia

October 22, 2007

CBS Coverage of MLS Philly 10.22: One Step Closer!

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CLICK HERE for the video coverage in Media, PA which some of the supporter group Sons of Ben was on hand for. The stadium looks awesome and a lot different than most of the Rosetti planned sites that MLS aficionados have gotten used to. One step closer is all I can say - now it's up [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, MLS, MLS Philly, Sons of Ben, supporters groups, television

MLS: Philly Peeking Over the Crest?

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Answer: yes, if one anonymous tipster is reading several signs correctly. To flag some just-behind-the-scenes details to my colleague's Philly expansion post below: "-reportedly, Gov. Rendell has already agreed to the Philly MLS deal. He is just waiting for the Senate/House to pass the bill to sign it." "-The senate majority leader, former Chester city mayor, is [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , MLS Philly, MLS expansion, Major League Soccer, Seattle, Seattle Sounders

October 21, 2007

Expansion Galore: MLS Philly, Phoenix

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MLS Philly has taken another a big step. Delaware County - home of Chester, PA - has agreed to earmark $30 million dollars for a Chester Waterfront soccer-specific stadium. The funds are coming from slot revenues at Delaware County casinos. According the article, with all this put in place Jay Sugarman and crew can now [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Expansion, MLS Philly, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia

October 17, 2007

MLS Expansion: Double-Down on PAC NW & Beyond

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My local paper reports this morning that Major League Soccer's (MLS) top officials are again eyeing the Rose City's potential as an expansion market. While nothing definitive appears in the article- for instance, no talk of negotiations, advanced or otherwise - it's easy to disregard this as a simple means of keeping the lines [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , MLS Philly, MLS St. Louis, MLS expansion, Major League Soccer, Portland, Portland Timbers, Seattle, Seattle Sounders

September 7, 2007

More Philly Expansion News: Each Time more Promising.

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Don Garber spoke very recently with public officials and potential investors about the prospect of an MLS team in Philadelphia. "We believe that a team in Chester will serve to really enrich the lives of the citizens of the city, but also the citizens of the community and this region generally," Garber said after meeting with [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Don Garber, Expansion, MLS Philly