From the Daily News:The world's most popular sport will soon have a home in Queens.
A new soccer team called F.C. New York is coming in 2010 - and it's looking to build a soccer-specific stadium in the borough in the next five years, team officials announced Wednesday.
F.C. New York will join the United Soccer League as an expansion franchise, and play its first game in April 2010 at Hofstra University.
The Hempstead campus will be the home turf, with occasional games at Columbia University's Baker Field until a new home is built, officials said.
The team recently met with Borough President Helen Marshall to discuss building a 9,000-seat stadium in Queens.
See previously:
Willets Point Headscratcher Series, part 5
Wilpon wants soccer stadium to replace Shea
Wilpon at Wellington Pointe
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Let me see if I understand:
Several thousand hard working union employees plus several hundred hard working business owners are to lose jobs, property and the ability to feed and clothe their families, so that some wealthy developer can build a stadium at taxpayers' expense, make fabulous profits, and illegally charge the taxpaying owners to enter the public property.
All this because Commissar Death and Taxes hates the Little People, and wants only the very wealthy near him so that they can sip wine and cut cheese while giggling at those who struggle every day.
So, who wants to go to a soccer game?
Put it in the posh Robinwood section of Beechurst where Shulman lives!
My gentlemanly demeanor prevents me from indulging in another suggestion
of where to stick it.
They're using it merely as a publicity move tho get the "little brown people" to support the Wellington Pointe jerk-off!
Good try Parkside.
Can you see enormous Evan kicking out the first ball?
HEY JACK ASSES, WHY NOT A FOOTBALL TEAM? WE WANTED THE JETS OR GIANTS TO COME BACK TO THE CITY AND NOW WE GET A SOCCER TEAM. PLEASE WE HAVE ENOUGH SOCCER TAKING OVER ALL OF THE PARKS, BRING FOOTBALL BACK TO QUEENS. AGAIN THE QUEENS IS SOLD OUT BY THE CITY AND IT'S BOARDS.
This borough has some great priorities. Close hospitals, build stadiums.
Lmao, the city is bankrupt and we are building stadiums, wow.. they want to lay off teachers, but they spend 80 million to build a school, hmm laughable. raise taxes and tax everything is the only choice they say they have, bull shit. stop spending, keep people working and cut your salaries down.
what a joke
Lets take a look:
1. Football Stadium. Good point. Compare those dollars with soccor dollars. Better point. Our economy needs that money. Best point.
Does it win the argument? Nope!
In the Alice in Wonderland world of NYC politics, you lose. Much lower on the tweeder index than a soccor stadium.
2. Baseball stadium next to soccor stadium. Hmmm...Let me think. Beer. Thousands of people crammed in a small space. Domincans vs Equadorians anyone?
3. Soccor fans. English? Brazil? Mexico? Croatian?
Terrible Towels will be the least of your problems. You could be so lucky.
Our borough could have had its soccer stadium as part of Plan B for the 2012 Olympics, an expanded Citi Field for baseball and football.
Instead, city officials insisted on a West Side arena, the Mets refused to build a multi-use stadium, the Jets refused to move to Queens, and our spineless local pols went along with the cramped Citi Field.
Now, they have another lame excuse for demolishing Willets Point. First it was for a World's Fair, then a convention center, now it's for a soccer stadium.
Does anyone actually watch soccer or even pay money to see this crap?
Beckham was promoted like a king yet still failed miserably in the United States.
This isnt Italy, London or Yugoslavia.
Soccer fans are miserable sore loosers. They will tear apart the whole park and train stations one day
These Idiots polititions need to be declaired insane, senile and removed
"Does anyone actually watch soccer...?"
Yep. The Clintonian soccer moms who got the Stainmaker elected.
i want a football stadium, fuck soccer! the person is right more money would come in with football over soccer anytime. omg do we have any say what goes on in queens? city council and ms.marshall should be shot (only an expression) why are they continuing to dump on queens? the city doesn't have the money but they keep spending what a joke.
who needs any stadium in queens?
A small 9,000-seat soccer stadium is nothing like the costs involved with a massive 70,000-seat football stadium. It also skips over the question of whether the Jets or the Giants want to play in Queens. That's a huge assumption, and wrong when it comes to the Jets who emphatically said no. Go scream at them if you think it'll help, but don't pretend this is a binary choice of Either a small soccer stadium OR a huge football stadium. Seriously, most NYC college campuses with sports facilities have larger stadiums than what we're talking about here.
One of the previous related articles says this is about a 2nd MLS team for NY. FC New York is not an MLS team. It's a 2nd-tier league team (out of 3.5 tiers), like the Buffalo Bisons or the Brooklyn Cyclones (where there are 9 tiers).
Parking would seem to not be a concern since games could be scheduled when Mets games aren't going on so they can use Mets parking.
Metrostars (not calling them Red Bulls) average game attendance is about 17,000. That's hardly a failure. Games just look under-attended when they play in an expensive-to-run 76,000-seat stadium. It's one of the reasons they're building their own 25,000-seat stadium - and they're doing it without taxpayer money.
Actually, Beckham paid off pretty well for the LA Galaxy and the MLS in general, even if he did not really help out with their play. 66,000 people came to see him play at Giants Stadium - a huge crowd for NY soccer. People bought 300,000 of his jerseys in 2007. MLS made almost 200 million in 2008, and is taking on 2 new expansion teams. They're still 10% in the red, but that's been disappearing fast. Due to the downturn and the demographics that are really driving any 'brown people' bullshit, interest and attendance is expected to just keep improving.
finally someone brought some reality to the discussion. It's not about soccer vs football, cause you would need an NFL team to play there. It's about soccer stadium as a reason to take over WP. As nice as it would be to have bars and restaurants around the stadium, not sure about taking someone's private land to do it.
As soon as the Mets play in front of a full house at Citi for the the discussion of the "eyesore" of WP will come to the forefront of the discussion. There isn't a parking lot between the stadium and street anymore.
apparently your a soccer player!
Right now this team is looking for a smaller stadium! The Wilpon thing took a back seat with Madoff and the economy. For those that follow the league - the league wants a team here. Wilpon said publically he was thinking about it. Thing is - there is no talk about politicians about it. Everyone is hush about it, and they know whats going on - why are they being hush? Is this going to happen crapper? You seem to think so - but what Wilpon wants and this other team that just came into being want - seem to be different.
Kill yourselves.
A soccer staduim is a wonderful idea!!!!! THE IMMIGRANTS will be supported by their own sport and can also be housed at night in the stadium - mucho caliente!!!! Plus - it will be situated near their country home of Flushing Meadow Park at Willets Point! Wow waterfront veiw and all - quick get them a drivers license to get them to the polls to vote on this project!! Ieee Ieee Yeeee!
The Queenscrapper quotes John Adams on his cover page but censors his own blog like a nazi when he doesnt like what he is reading.
Go away, Biggie.
Who is "Biggie"?
***The Queenscrapper quotes John Adams on his cover page but censors his own blog like a nazi when he doesnt like what he is reading.***
John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition laws....
The Crapper is most likely a girl.
I though Biggie was ten years in his grave.
Anonymous said...
The Queenscrapper quotes John Adams on his cover page but censors his own blog like a nazi when he doesnt like what he is reading.
Friday, April 03, 2009
thats right biggie your an ass hole
What is the deal with all this new building when we can't pay the bills? Admittedly, I am a non-sports fan, so the intricacies of building stadia are somewhat beyond me.
However, I understand broke and that is what this country, state and government are. When we start building factories and selling overseas again, then I will be excited. Entertainment is no substitute for work.
Queenscrapper pretendes to have the consciousness of John Adams but is more like a character from George Orwell's "1984"
I think you have me confused with Mayor Bloomberg, aka "Big Brother".
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