Major League Soccer has decided to award Philadelphia with it's newest franchise. The team will be located in Chester, Pennsylvania a city just south of downtown Philly.
A former major manufacturing center Chester, is now struggling economically and the new stadium is part of a major revitalization effort for the waterfront of Chester.
The public will fund up to $47 million dollars of the new soccer-only stadium.
This is great news for Philly and for the MLS and soccer fans in the US Philly fans are well known for passion and occasional madness they display in supporting their local teams and this level of enthusiasm will be an ideal boost for the new team when
they debut in 2010.
3 comments:
WTF? When is Seattle gonna get a team? Like they know how to play proper football in Philly...sheesh! I bet a Seattle team would get tons of fan support.
Yo Punchy,
Seattle got a team. The new MLS debuts in the 2009 season.
Philly has a long history of soccer so I think they will strong support for their new squad
figured that out...no news out here in eastern washington
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