MLS stadium projects have come with strings attached — some have included youth complexes, others have been tied to the development of entertainment districts — but nothing quite like the proposeddowntown Detroit stadium. If public officials have their way, it will depend on developers building a jail. Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores and Cleveland Cavaliers […]
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Detroit hops MLS expansion line
Until a couple of weeks ago, you’d have never heard Detroit often mentioned in terms of MLS expansion. That has changed. Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores and Cleveland Cavaliers owner DanGilbert are partnering to bring a club to downtown Detroit, putting the Motor City third in line for an expansion team. MLS commissioner Don Garber […]
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What They're Saying: Don Garber
“I think as the women’s game gets more and more popular, it just makes sense for teams that have the infrastructure to add NWSL teams. I think you’ll see, very soon, half of our clubs launching andmanaging women’s teams. When and how and what the specifics are, I don’t know.” — MLS commissioner Don Garber, […]
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MLS ups the ante on expansion
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) Major League Soccer has come a long way in the last decade, let alone the last two. Commissioner Don Garber likes to tell the story about when the league was just starting to begin expansion discussions in 2005 and meeting with the owners of MLSE, the Canadian sports andentertainment company. “They […]
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MLS expansion, immediate and long term, taking shape
MLS’s plans to slot in the launch dates of its next four expansion teams are beginning to take shape. MLS commissioner Don Garber said at an event to promote the Sacramento expansion bid onThursday that the goal — a word he emphasized several times — is to launch Atlanta United and Minnesota in 2017 and […]
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Don Garber: Arena comments 'absurd and irresponsible'
A day after LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena criticized the “hysteria” surrounding Nigel de Jong‘s foul that injured Portland Timbers midfielder Darlington Nagbe, MLS commissionerDon Garber termed Arena’s remarks “absurd and irresponsible.” In an interview with LosAngeles reporters, Arena described the coverage of the incident in Sunday’s game “hysteria” and “the fault of social media. […]
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What They're Saying: Don Garber
“It’s going to take time before we develop players as good as the Germans. Belgium has a cultural dynamic that we don’t yet have. How do you have [a] player think about nothing elsebut the team when they’re 16? That culture doesn’t yet exist and it will take some time before that happens.” — MLS […]
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St. Louis raises MLS expansion game
St. Louis, one of the oldest hotbeds for soccer in the United States, has until recently rarely been considered an MLS expansion target. But with the exit of the NFL Rams to Los Angeles, a seriouseffort is underway to explore what it will take to bring MLS to St. Louis. The latest development was the […]
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What They're Saying: Don Garber
“We are very excited about the possibilities in St. Louis. We believe it’s MLS-ready. We’ve got a lot of work to do as it relates to determining a stadium solution, and figuring out who ultimately canbe the owner of the team. But, overall, we’re very focused on St. Louis as a potential expansion market.” — […]
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More TAM means more pressure across the board for MLS clubs
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Just a few days after the 2015 MLS season ended with Portland winning its first league title, the landscape for2016 already looks dramatically different. Despite the fact that less than half of the teams used Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) to bolster their rosters after the mechanism was officiallyannounced in July, MLS […]