Dwayne De Rosario

[turienzo's lovechild]

Yeah I'd read it was an old name and don't Chivas get like 35,000 crowds often too?

the mexican chivas are HUGE but their american version is fairly poorly supported (they share la galaxy's ground and get much lower crowds)

 

[Simster]

seattle are very well supported, the new stadium there was built with american football and soccer in mind....the sounders basically use the bottom tier which they fill every game (probably about 20,000?) and their fans are mental


another thing is that after montreal enter next year, there's 7 cities going APESHIT trying to get the 20th spot, the mls are talking about gradually expanding to around 24 teams

Atlanta
Detroit
Las Vegas
Miami (had a team at the start but folded)
Minnesota
New York (a second franchise)
Orlando

have all expressed interest, MLS can basically pick and choose the cities that have proved to them that there's a large enough fan base in the area to sustain a team, so the attendances look set to keep on rising

Indeed. You seem to know MLS like me. I actually bumped into Drumstick on a MLS forum not so long ago! Seattle get 36,000 in that lower bowl,by the way.

NY will probably get the 20th franchise, but it is dependent on finding a stadium. Three potential groups want that franchise, including the one who paid for the Cosmos brand a couple of years ago. Detroit is interesting, the Pontiac Silverdome has been bought for chickenfeed by a Canadian entrepreneur who wants to turn it into a MLS stadium, but his numbers don't seem to add up. The one you're missing is St Louis - a US soccer hotbed that would get good support but sadly has no wealthy ownership group. I doubt they will go into Florida any time soon though.

 

[Drumstick]

^ I love how when he shoots the guy just to his left waves his hand in the air to say 'Why didn't you give it to me!'

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

here are the 2011 attendance figures:

Seattle: 36,893
Los Angeles: 23,106
Vancouver: 20,582 (have JUST moved into a new stadium though)
Toronto: 20,183
New York: 19,356
Portland: 18,733
Philadelphia: 18,201
Kansas City: 17,682
Salt Lake: 17,420
Houston: 16, 868
D.C: 15,107
Colorado: 14,749
Chivas: 14,373
Chicago: 14,137
New England: 13, 030
Dallas: 13,026
Columbus: 12,185
San Jose: 11,928

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

the one thing i'm not liking is the shift to naff sounding european names.........kansas city went from the wizards to "sporting" and real salt lake is awful, probably why commentators seem to always refer to them as "RSL"

the english sounding ones like FC dallas, Toronto FC and DC United are decent though

another thing they need to sort out is getting DC and NE out of those massive american football stadiums pronto, it looks and sounds awful, especially when the rest of the league is in soccer stadiums, or stadiums adapted well for soccer

 

[Simster]

San Jose and Houston are building new stadiums at the moment too. SJ play in a stadium that only holds 12,500 so their gates will jump when that is done. Houston are another well supported club that will sell out their 22,000 seat stadium in a year or so.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

if people want to get into MLS, i suggest watching MLS review show....it's on youtube every week

 

[Drumstick]

the one thing i'm not liking is the shift to naff sounding european names.........kansas city went from the wizards to "sporting" and real salt lake is awful, probably why commentators seem to always refer to them as "RSL"

the english sounding ones like FC dallas, Toronto FC and DC United are decent though

another thing they need to sort out is getting DC and NE out of those massive american football stadiums pronto, it looks and sounds awful, especially when the rest of the league is in soccer stadiums, or stadiums adapted well for soccer

Regards the DC United stadium saga that makes our battle seem like a walk in the park! That's how me and [MENTION=232]Simster[/MENTION] met each other on the other forum as we spoke about it! Was odd!

I went there years ago and still nothings changed. I really want to go back and catch a game.

 

[middletoenail]

Its the whole franchise thing which puts me and a lot of Americans off. The same can be said of American Football supporters that follow College football rather than NFL, where there are rivalries, passion and tradition involved.