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Like video streaming services, soccer leagues in the United States and Canada are popping up all the time! This is the tread to discus all the professional leagues that aren't Major League Soccer. Tier 1 - Canadian Premier League Canada has their very own tier 1 league, and you Canuck assholes haven't made your own thread. For shame. Defending champions are Forge FC. Tier 2 - USL Championship The grounds where MLS expansion eyes sit. Defending champions are Real Monarchs SLC. Tier 3 - USL League One More than half this league are reserve squads for bigger clubs. Defending champions are North Texas SC. Also Tier 3 - National Independent Soccer Association The disruptive league, playing fall-to-spring. No champs yet, since it's their first season. Tier ? - Wherever the New York Cosmos play They played in the NPSL Members Cup last year, and I don't know if that's leading to anything. If you live in a town with a club in one of these leagues, go to a match! Have a beer, sing a song, punch a child in the face (valid only in Orlando). You never know which guy playing soccer on a baseball field will sign a deal with a big club!
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Las Vegas Lights FC (USL):    Bentai posted:They’re a marketing gimmick wrapped up in a mediocre team. But it’s my team. I guess. High Points of 2019:
2020: The team has hired center back Ramon Martin Del Campo to help shore up the defenses, but they have talked more this offseason about a "contractual restructuring phase" and very little about who's actually playing, so worryingly it could be a third "inaugural year" of a new team. New home and away jerseys are expected to be revealed before the start of the new season. No preseason MLS games this year, due to the other league starting play in February; what games are being played are being done on the road and behind closed doors. The rumblings of trying to buy into the MLS pyramid scheme continue to grow, goddammit.
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sleepwalkers posted:come to a detroit city fc match and i will buy you a beer DCFC is the most fun I've had at a sporting event since graduating college. I'm moving back to Detroit in October and may end up being one of the team physicians if it all works out. I'm a bit torn on the latter part because I'm not sure I'd enjoy the games as much without drinking, singing, and yelling poo poo at opposing players with bad haircuts.
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Bentai posted:New home and away jerseys are expected to be revealed before the start of the new season. Even though the first home ones looked bad, I hope they don't go boring with these.
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Ottawa Fury folded and Atletico Madrid almost immediately bought a new expansion club in Ottawa to join CPL. Apparently the name will be Atletico Ottawa which is an objectively terrible name but I guess it's better than having no team at all.
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Aggro posted:DCFC is the most fun I've had at a sporting event since graduating college. I'm moving back to Detroit in October and may end up being one of the team physicians if it all works out. I'm a bit torn on the latter part because I'm not sure I'd enjoy the games as much without drinking, singing, and yelling poo poo at opposing players with bad haircuts. Oh that's rad! When did you move away? If the vibe at the team clubhouse is anything to go by, gameday should be fun. It's been incredibly cool to be down at the Fieldhouse, grab a beer, and run into a couple players or one of the owners as they're hanging out after practice or something and chat with them for a bit. I know this vibe will disappear at some point if they keep growing, but it's been wonderful to experience over the years. Hopefully you'll get to see all the crazy stuff that's happened in whatever the interim has been.
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Love DCFC. Took my then 5 year old to Cass tech when they barely scratched 1k at a match. Nothing was served there so at half time everyone bolted through a pulled back chain link fence to go to some dive bar (Detroit dive bar at that) to load up and slam as many drinks as possible before the second half began. I was hooked that day.
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Edward Mass posted:If you live in a town with a club in one of these leagues, go to a match! Have a beer, sing a song, punch a child in the face (valid only in Orlando). You never know which guy playing soccer on a baseball field will sign a deal with a big club! Technically, that child was punched in St. Petersburg, Florida (at Al Lang Stadium), not Orlando, but it was Orlando "ultras" doing the punching; the guys arrested, IIRC, were also arrested a few years later for tearing up/destroying seats at Atlanta United's stadium. The one time Orlando City organized supporters came back to Al Lang after the punching incident (for Orlando City B, in USL, in 2017) they were given their own special fenced off area out where the food trucks now sit, next to the harbor. Nothing quite like the Rowdies last season in NASL in 2016, when there were four NASL teams in Florida (Tampa Bay Rowdies, Jacksonville Armada, Miami FC, Ft. Lauderdale Strikers); but at least this season we will have Miami FC in the USL Championship, so that's two Florida teams at least; the Rowdies have been the lone Florida team in division two these past two seasons. Oh yeah, and Al Lang is a (former) baseball stadium, too, but at least the grass pitch at Al Lang is top quality, unlike most of the other baseball stadiums in use in USL. sleepwalkers posted:Spring teams: California United Strikers FC, Chattanooga FC, Detroit City FC, Los Angeles Force, Michigan Stars FC (lol), Oakland Roots SC, San Diego 1904 FC, Stumptown Athletic Wow, so the Cosmos aren't even showing up in NISA until the Fall? That's exactly how they entered the NASL 2.0 back in 2013, in the Fall. Cosmos fashionably late. Some things never change. Gonna repost my effortpost from last year below, with a very few updates, since this is mostly a Rowdies history post and not an in-depth dive into the new Rowdies season; check out the Unused Substitutes podcast for that sort of thing. I'm not involved enough to keep up with the current roster or how it fits into the USL Championship overall. Ahem. Who are the greatest North American association football club not currently in MLS, and why it is the Tampa Bay Rowdies?  [Commence effortpost] THE NASLOZOIC ERA, AKA THE PREMLSAMBRIAN ERA . . . The original Tampa Bay Rowdies played their first match, an indoor soccer game, on Valentine's Day, 1975, at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, a short walk from where the new era Rowdies play at Al Lang Stadium. Fun fact: the Bayfront Center was imploded in 2004 and replaced by the Salvador Dalí Museum. The Dali is awesome and you should visit it if you happen to be in downtown St. Pete. The original Tampa Bay Rowdies played in the North American Soccer League, in Tampa, Florida, at Tampa Stadium, aka The Big Sombrero. The Rowdies were the first pro sports club to represent the Tampa Bay Area, a year before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When the Rowdies first started playing in 1975 at Tampa Stadium, the end zone seating had not been built yet, so it was not known as The Big Sombrero back then. The Rowdies had a sold out home game of 40,000+ when Pelé and the New York Cosmos came visiting in the early years before the expansion of Tampa Stadium was completed (once the expansion was completed, Tampa Stadium seated 72,000). The Rowdies had several 40,000+ home games circa 1975-1980, and one 56,000+ home game in 1980. Average attendance started at about 15,000+ in 1975 and increased to 28,000+ by 1980, IIRC, before starting a slow decline which culminated in the collapse of the original NASL. The original 1970s/1980s era Tampa Bay Rowdies were known for their very effective and witty marketing campaigns.  Original era motto (on the back of most Rowdies t-shirts, and on Rowdies bumper stickers): "Soccer is a kick in the grass." We had a kick-rear end theme song; I used to have this record, it's either in storage or long lost though, sadly ("SOLD - Tampa Bay Rowdies '45 record - available on eBay late October"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qrQ80oCcpo Get it? Kick in the grass? Kick rear end? No? Also, Rowdies fans were known as Fannies. We had a mascot named Ralph Rowdie, or was it Rowdie Ralph?  However, he was better known from this original NASL artwork, featured on tens of thousands of t-shirts worn by 1970s/1980s era Floridians:  Tampa Bay Rowdies got off to a good start in 1975, beating the Portland Timbers to win the first NASL Soccer Bowl, at Spartan Stadium, the then home of the San Jose Earthquakes:  Awesome NFL-style Voice of God video ("Rowdies Road To The 75' NASL Soccer Bowl"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlRSfC6StTQ (Watching that video, I realize I am a really old fogey, because somewhere buried deep in my unconscious mind, soccer referees still wear all black, the assistant referees are still called linesmen, there is no fourth official, you can still back-pass to the goalkeeper, etc.). The best known original Rowdie would be Rodney Marsh, currently one of the Grumpy Pundits on SiriusXM FC, channel 157.  TAMPA BAY ROWDIES/MUTINY ACHIEVEMENTS AND TROPHIES . . . Tampa Bay Rowdies 1975-1993: 1975 Indoor Region 3 1975 NASL Indoor Runner-Up 1975 NASL Eastern Division 1975 NASL Regular Season Runner-Up 1975 NASL Soccer Bowl Champions 1976 NASL Indoor East Region 1976 NASL Indoor Champions 1976 NASL Eastern Division, Atlantic Conference 1976 NASL Regular Season Premiership 1978 NASL Eastern Division, American Conference 1978 NASL American Conference 1978 NASL Soccer Bowl Runner-Up 1979 NASL Indoor Runner-Up 1979 NASL Eastern Division, American Conference 1979 NASL American Conference 1979 NASL Soccer Bowl Runner-Up 1979-80 NASL Indoor Champions 1980 NASL Eastern Division, American Conference 1981–82 NASL Indoor Atlantic Conference 1981-82 NASL Indoor Runner-Up 1983 NASL Indoor Champions 1989 ASL Southern Division 1992 ASPL Runner-Up 1992 Professional Cup Runner-Up (The Tampa Bay Mutiny were MLS 1.0's Tampa Bay Rowdies in all but name, because reasons.) Tampa Bay Mutiny 1996-2001: 1996 MLS Eastern Conference Regular Season Winners 1996 MLS Supporters' Shield 2000 Copa de Puerto Rico Winners Tampa Bay Rowdies 2010-present: 2010 Coastal Cup 2010 Ponce De Leon Cup 2011 Coastal Cup 2012 Ponce De Leon Cup 2011 NASL Fair Play Award 2012 Coastal Cup 2012 NASL Fair Play Award 2012 NASL Soccer Bowl Champions 2013 Coastal Cup 2014 NASL Fair Play Award 2016 Coastal Cup NEW ERA TAMPA BAY ROWDIES . . . As noted above, the new era Rowdies won their second NASL Soccer Bowl in 2012, under the pre-Bill Edwards ownership. Leapin' Luke Mulholland celebrates 2012 Soccer Bowl win:  The Bill Edwards era 2014-2018 was significantly unsuccessful on the field, in spite of spending a lot of money on players, including Joe Cole and Marcel Schäfer. Local goons in Ralph's Mob can explain in much better detail than I can how head coach Neill Collins is rebuilding the team for the Pre-Bill Edwards, the new era Rowdies had Hoops McGee as mascot:  The Bill Edwards era ushered in Pete the Pelican:  quote:Having made his home, as many Pelicans do, in the bay near downtown St. Petersburg, Fla., Pete the Pelican was getting to know his new surroundings in early 2016 when he happened upon a stadium right on the waterfront. Pelicans are not the only birds of note associated with the Rowdies. Al Lang Stadium and the area around it in downtown St. Petersburg is inhabited by feral parakeets (not budgies; the big green kind of parakeet, probably something similar to Indian Ringneck Parakeets, but I'm not sure of the exact species). At Rowdies home matches at Al Lang, they hang out in the palm trees behind the south goal, in the Mahaffey Theater parking lot, of an evening, squawking loudly until it gets dark. And of course there is the aforementioned Ralph's Mob, named after the 1970s/1980s era Ralph Rowdie/Rowdie Ralph mascot:  New era Rowdies slogans: "we stand for soccer" and "come on you Rowdies"; hashtag: #COYR. A good site for following Rowdies news is The Unused Substitutes: http://www.theunsubs.com/wp/ Their podcasts are very informative as well: http://www.theunsubs.com/wp/category/podcasts (The above link is no longer updating with their latest podcasts, these are no longer hosted on the unsubs website, so for their latest podcasts check out the Unused Substitutes on your favorite podcast app.) Oh yeah Ralph's Mob has a website, too, though most Mobster activity seems to be on Facebook, Twitter, and reddit (Big Soccer activity amongst most Rowdies fans died off a long time ago): https://www.ralphsmob.com NEW ERA TAMPA BAY ROWDIES HISTORY IN BRIEF . . . The new era Rowdies spent 2008-2009 trying to get permission to build a small stadium in Tampa, and failing badly (RIP, Tomato Patch, the tiny Rowdies SSS that was not to be), and also losing control (or never having had control) over the Tampa Bay Rowdies trademarks and copyrights because reasons. The new era Rowdies began play in 2010 in the weird USSF shotgun marriage D2 league, featuring all of the then USL and soon-to-be-NASL teams in one big unhappy family, with the Rowdies playing under the forced, but temporary, name of FC Tampa Bay, due to some copyright squatters in Texas. The Rowdies played the 2010 season at George Steinbrenner Field, the Yankees spring training facility, which was not a good facility for soccer. The next year the Rowdies moved across the Bay to Al Lang Stadium in St. Pete, and at the end of 2011 got the rights to their name back, just in time to win their second NASL Soccer Bowl in 2012. The then owners didn't have the money to keep this up, though, so sold the Rowdies to Bill Edwards at the end of 2013. Bill Edwards spent 2014 successfully fighting to wrest control of Al Lang Stadium away from the St. Pete Baseball Commission, who had left the facility in a bad state. Before the 2015 season Al Lang was greatly improved, and the Rowdies were finally able to play home games on a decent quality grass pitch. After the 2016 season, Bill Edwards moved the Rowdies from the new era NASL, to the USL, and not a moment too soon (RIP, both original NASL and new era NASL). Bill Edwards made a bid for an MLS expansion spot for the Tampa Bay Rowdies, with a proposed expanded Al Lang Stadium (approved by an 87% yes vote of St. Pete voters), but this was turned down by MLS because reasons. Since moving to Al Lang Stadium in 2011, Rowdies average home game attendance has increased every year, except for last year (and only missed the mark by a very small number). This is impressive for lower league soccer considering that the Rowdies have some of the highest ticket prices in USL. IIRC average attendance is hovering somewhere just below 6,000; the capacity is just above 7,000, so there isn't much room to grow. Hopefully the new Rays ownership will be able to get more sellouts and bump those average attendance numbers up again (maybe justifying some seating expansion at Al Lang?); the fact that this year, all of the Rowdies home games will be on Saturday nights, helps a lot. Previously in USL and NASL there had been too many weeknight games and other weird scheduling (plenty of fans won't drive over the bridge on a weeknight due to rush hour traffic congestion). The longer season in USL this year may also have an effect. The Rowdies are currently selling Season Tickets and 3 game Hat Trick Packs; as an out-of-towner I am busily pressing F5 waiting for individual home game tickets to go on sale. Bill Edwards sold the Rowdies to the Tampa Bay Rays in late 2018, so 2020 will be the second season for the Rowdies under Rays ownership. Ticket prices have been slashed this year, and there is going to be a new standing section behind goal for Ralph's Mob. On the whole the Rays ownership has been good on the field but unimpressive overall; the online store was missing all last year and although I do see it is available now it hardly has any content at all. Very poor show. The Rays stadium problems and the whole MLB split season proposal with Montreal is not helping matters. I don't like seeing the Rowdies be the red-headed stepchild of a MLB team. IN SUMMARY . . . And so, once again, as a long suffering original Rowdies Fannie (since 1975!), I look forward to NB: As I am also a New England Revolution fan, I am very much used to going to the Cup final and losing; Rowdies have only done it twice whereas the Revs have done it five times; go Revs! TL;DR - the Tampa Bay Rowdies are awesome and you should support them. #COYR quote:do the tampa bay rowdies have capos and hymnals Yes, probably? I live over 1,000 miles away, so I have no personal involvement. When I do make it down there, Ralph's Mob has drums, singing, and tifo. Safe to assume they have all of the usual American soccer supporter drama. There's also the Skyway Casuals, for those who travel up from the south over the Skyway bridge. Ralph's Mob and the Skyway Casuals drinks at the Thirsty First and marches from there to Al Lang Stadium before home games. There is also a tailgate in the Al Lang parking lot before home games; I believe there is free beer. Free beer good. Also various trucks and tents from Rowdies sponsors, etc. Saturday mornings the Al Lang parking lot is also used by the St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market, except in the summer, when it moves a few blocks north to the shade of Williams Park. There are various local food trucks in the parking lot before games and inside Al Lang Stadium during games. Ralph's Mob/Skyway Casuals have very good tifo for a lower league club: quote:https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2020/01/19/lafcs-3252-win-tifo-year-independent-supporters-council Out-of-towners and visiting fans very much welcome. This is a very walkable environment; check out what downtown St. Petersburg has to offer. Lots of local museums, art galleries, clubs, shopping, eating and drinking establishments within easy walking distance of Al Lang Stadium.
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Stiev Awt posted:i would have gone with REDWHITES SC rough riders
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TraderStav posted:Love DCFC. Took my then 5 year old to Cass tech when they barely scratched 1k at a match. Nothing was served there so at half time everyone bolted through a pulled back chain link fence to go to some dive bar (Detroit dive bar at that) to load up and slam as many drinks as possible before the second half began. I was hooked that day.  that's awesome. Minor league sports at their best
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Nostradingus posted:
This is proto-Northern Guard circa 2012-13 also. Just seeds of what they'd eventually become. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ1sd7SW4AArtgK?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
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sleepwalkers posted:Oh that's rad! When did you move away? If the vibe at the team clubhouse is anything to go by, gameday should be fun. It's been incredibly cool to be down at the Fieldhouse, grab a beer, and run into a couple players or one of the owners as they're hanging out after practice or something and chat with them for a bit. I know this vibe will disappear at some point if they keep growing, but it's been wonderful to experience over the years. Hopefully you'll get to see all the crazy stuff that's happened in whatever the interim has been. I moved in July so I missed out on the Members Cup season. However, I did trek from NYC out to Long Island to see them beat the Cosmos. The local fans threw beer at us and tried to steal a flag — it was a bit of a poo poo show. The Rouge Rovers were extremely nice and got me good and drunk, and someone gave me a ride back to the LIRR station. I missed out on the afterparty at the hotel because I really didn’t want to get stranded in Nassau County.
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Oh how I want them to have a friendly with Real Salt Lake.
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El Derbi Badrileño
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Aggro posted:I moved in July so I missed out on the Members Cup season. However, I did trek from NYC out to Long Island to see them beat the Cosmos. The local fans threw beer at us and tried to steal a flag — it was a bit of a poo poo show. The Rouge Rovers were extremely nice and got me good and drunk, and someone gave me a ride back to the LIRR station. I missed out on the afterparty at the hotel because I really didn’t want to get stranded in Nassau County. i was there as well! and it was an absolute shitshow! i think i talked about the experience in the previous thread, it wasn’t even fun unwelcoming, just incredibly stupid. did you by any chance pregame in the parking lot with ngs folks? if so, any chance you spraypainted paint tifo on the asphalt before the match?
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sleepwalkers posted:i was there as well! and it was an absolute shitshow! i think i talked about the experience in the previous thread, it wasn’t even fun unwelcoming, just incredibly stupid. I did pregame in the parking lot but did not spray paint the tifo.
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Aggro posted:I moved in July so I missed out on the Members Cup season. However, I did trek from NYC out to Long Island to see them beat the Cosmos. The local fans threw beer at us and tried to steal a flag — it was a bit of a poo poo show. The Rouge Rovers were extremely nice and got me good and drunk, and someone gave me a ride back to the LIRR station. I missed out on the afterparty at the hotel because I really didn’t want to get stranded in Nassau County. sleepwalkers posted:i was there as well! and it was an absolute shitshow! i think i talked about the experience in the previous thread, it wasn’t even fun unwelcoming, just incredibly stupid. Tampa Bay Rowdies supporters (Ralph's Mob) had similar experience in Long Island from Cosmos "ultras" I guess this would have been back in 2014 or thereabouts. A few teams in lower division soccer (NY Cosmos, Atlanta Silverbacks, Orlando City) have attracted rather lovely "ultra"-wannabees over the years, who like to start fights, steal flags and scarves, etc.
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Aggro posted:I did pregame in the parking lot but did not spray paint the tifo. Do over Ham posted:A few teams in lower division soccer (NY Cosmos, Atlanta Silverbacks, Orlando City) have attracted rather lovely "ultra"-wannabees over the years, who like to start fights, steal flags and scarves, etc.
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Fort Lauderdale CF hired Jason Kreis to coach, which really shows how the mighty have fallen.
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CPL schedule came out, and these are the big changes. - Nearly every game is scheduled on a weekend or holiday now, so there'll be a lot fewer matches with 1,500 attendees because people are tired after work. - No more Spring and Fall halves, just one 28 match table. - 1st place gets a bye to the finals, while 2nd and 3rd place have a playoff. Having the Spring and Fall winners/1st and 2nd overall duke it out was fine IMO, but I'm not really mad at anything here.
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The best part:quote:Jul 1 - Wednesday 1:00 pm EDT HFX Wanderers vs. York9 Wanderers Grounds
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sleepwalkers posted:small world, there's a non-zero chance we've met. I met a nice young couple from Detroit, Detroit City FC fans, at a Rowdies home game in Al Lang in St. Pete in 2015. Detroit City FC fans do seem to show up everywhere. There was a fierce rivalry between Tampa Bay Rowdies and Miami Toros/Ft. Lauderdale Strikers fans back in the 1970s/80s NASL. Nothing too violent but very heated. With the exception of NY Cosmos/Orlando City/Atlanta Silverbacks, all of the other supporters groups and fans have been fairly decent and relaxed. The only very heated Rowdies rivals now really are Orlando City and we really should get the Rowdies into MLS for that rivalry reason alone. City of St. Petersburg is banning smoke at Al Lang Stadium this year, for some reason. That did not stop someone from letting off smoke outside the stadium during yesterday's friendly match against Inter Miami. One of the advantages of the open harbor view at Al Lang, apparently.
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Saint Louis FC: hired a new coach in Steve Trittschuh, but will still be aggressively mediocre. we did get two Open Cup wins against MLS opposition last year (if you can call Cincinnati and Chicago Fire "MLS opposition", which lol) but apart from that...people here know decent soccer, want decent soccer and this ain't it. the only thing they have over a good high school game here like CBC-Vianney or SLUH-Rockwood Summit is that they can sell alcohol during the match. and even then less and less people are wanting to deal with the reconstruction of Highway 44 at the Meramec River, paying $15 to park, and putting up with the Louligans' "antics" all while baking under a summer sun next to the old Chrysler plant out in Fenton. besides, this is a Battlehawks town now--at least there you're indoors, and you get to vent your frustrations at Stan Kroenke. MLS is supposed to come in a year or two and that has to be better, right?
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Smoke drama. https://www.facebook.com/RalphsMob/photos/a.10151657937118951/10157206809203951/?type=3&theater
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https://www.lasvegaslightsfc.com/news_article/show/1089992quote:Las Vegas Lights FC announced today that its home match on Saturday, July 11th will be a “Midnight Match.” The match against Orange County SC will then kick-off at 11pm with a special midnight celebration at halftime.
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Do over Ham posted:Smoke drama. More smoke drama... quote:https://www.draysbay.com/2020/2/27/21152502/rowdies-smoke-political-fire-st-petersburg-fire-marshal
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https://www.lasvegaslightsfc.com/news_article/show/1091927 Las Vegas will be wearing a different jersey for each home game this season. Will be sold in limited numbers, and at $100 a pop, someone who's gotta catch em all will be out $1700. Merciful Soccer Gods, please let this team have a winning season to make up for all this insanity.
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Tacoma's getting their own soccer stadium for the Defiance and Reign FC.
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Bentai posted:https://www.lasvegaslightsfc.com/news_article/show/1091927 I love this idiot team.
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