03-18-2009, 02:52 PM
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 福岡市
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Vancouver Whitecaps now an MLS team!
Yay! Now hopefully they can get that Gastown Stadium built. It's going to be so cool to have the highest pro soccer league in North America here. The influences from Commercial Drive are a big part of this and people are partying down there right now.
Bring it on Toronto FC, we're waiting for you.....
http://www.vancouversun.com/Sports/o...528/story.html
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03-18-2009, 02:53 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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People care about MLS? 
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03-18-2009, 03:05 PM
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Don't click that link!
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Rural Alberta
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Oh sweet, another Vancouver team to dislike strongly!
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03-18-2009, 04:49 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Stern Nation
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it's good for soccer in canada, and vancouver has proven it's support for the whitecaps. soon enough the impact will be there too.
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03-18-2009, 05:24 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by Scrambler
Yay! Now hopefully they can get that Gastown Stadium built.
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If they are throwing $365 million into BC Place, don't bet on it. No way in hell that much money gets spent for nine football games and a couple trade shows a year...
And really, if they are going to put that much money into it, why not just blow up BC Place and build from scratch? You would probably end up with a better stadium that way.
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03-18-2009, 05:35 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Yellowknife
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Great news, I probably won't be a real big fan of this team due to my extreme dislike of anything Vancouver but as a huge fan of Canadian soccer I couldn't be happier. The Caps have done a hell of a lot more than Toronto FC in developing and playing young Canadian talent in recent times and indications are this will continue.
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03-18-2009, 05:38 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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Hell, I'd probably cheer for the Whitecaps over Toronto on Western principle alone.
That, and I despise North American SOCCER teams that use European names. The real Toronto FC plays in Skydome as members of the CFL. And of all of Real Salt Lake's fans, I bet no more than six speak Spanish.
DC United is the only one of these I'll make an exception for, based only on the irony of anything being "united" in a government town.
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03-18-2009, 05:46 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Won't be long before there is another failed franchise in Vancouver.
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03-18-2009, 07:27 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
If they are throwing $365 million into BC Place, don't bet on it. No way in hell that much money gets spent for nine football games and a couple trade shows a year...
And really, if they are going to put that much money into it, why not just blow up BC Place and build from scratch? You would probably end up with a better stadium that way.
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The waterfront stadium would be 100% privately funded, the only reason it isn't being built now is a couple minority groups looking fror a reason to complain that have delayed the process. IMO, it's not a matter of if but when that stadium will be built.
As for BC Place, I remember reading in the paper that blowing up the building would be almost as expensive as building a new one.
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03-18-2009, 08:01 PM
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UnModerator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Won't be long before there is another failed franchise in Vancouver.
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You think they would have failed by now if they were gonna fail.
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03-18-2009, 08:49 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Blaster86
You think they would have failed by now if they were gonna fail.
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shhh there's no room for logic here
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03-18-2009, 08:58 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Good for them. Hopefully they represent well
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03-18-2009, 09:09 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before
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Great news.
I've followed the Whitecaps in the past. One of my favourite past Liverpool players, Peter Beardsley, played for them at one time and I've always been interested in them since then.
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03-18-2009, 10:50 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Won't be long before there is another failed franchise in Vancouver.
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Coming from a Calgary based forum, and our literal ocean of failed sports franchises, we don't have any place trying to belittle Vancouver.
The Whitecaps have been around for a long time, and its good to see soccer develop in North America. Maybe one day, we'll grow up and support even A-League soccer here.
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03-18-2009, 11:06 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by C.F
The waterfront stadium would be 100% privately funded, the only reason it isn't being built now is a couple minority groups looking fror a reason to complain that have delayed the process. IMO, it's not a matter of if but when that stadium will be built.
As for BC Place, I remember reading in the paper that blowing up the building would be almost as expensive as building a new one.
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they just said on foxsportworld
that they will be playing in bc place stadium with the lower bowl having a special configuration for soccer that will seat 20 000 when the renovations are finished, for what that is worth
i also found this on the ap story
Changes in the domed stadium, which will seat 20,000 spectators for the MLS team in its lower bowl, will be based along those found at the home venue of Eintracht Frankfurt of the German Bundesliga.
Last edited by vennegoor of hesselink; 03-18-2009 at 11:09 PM.
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03-19-2009, 04:42 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vennegoor of hesselink
they just said on foxsportworld
that they will be playing in bc place stadium with the lower bowl having a special configuration for soccer that will seat 20 000 when the renovations are finished, for what that is worth
i also found this on the ap story
Changes in the domed stadium, which will seat 20,000 spectators for the MLS team in its lower bowl, will be based along those found at the home venue of Eintracht Frankfurt of the German Bundesliga.
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Yep. The renderings are on the MLS Vancouver website. It actually looks very nice.
Still though, the plan is to eventually be playing in a soccer-specific stadium on the waterfront.
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03-19-2009, 09:35 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary
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I would really like to see the Waterfront stadium built, but they've been dragging their feet for years about actually allowing it.
That said, I'm thrilled about this. I take in ~5 or 6 'Caps games a year as it stands now, if I'm still living here in 2011 I'm definitely picking up a pair of season tickets.
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03-19-2009, 12:31 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Your Mother's Place.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Resolute 14
That, and I despise North American SOCCER teams that use European names. The real Toronto FC plays in Skydome as members of the CFL. And of all of Real Salt Lake's fans, I bet no more than six speak Spanish.
DC United is the only one of these I'll make an exception for, based only on the irony of anything being "united" in a government town.
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This has been a HUGE pet peeve of mine for a while. I don't know what it is about this that just irks me so much.
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03-19-2009, 01:33 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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03-19-2009, 02:06 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Watch the Whitecaps win an MLS championship before the Canucks win a cup.
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