Great comments make this week by Don Garber regarding MLS expansion over at Soccer by Ives. Basically the commissioner is looking for the new team to be the perfect fit for the league.
“Things are going well with the league, so we’re not in a rush,” said Garber. “We don’t need to do it, I’ve said that many times before. I think in the past, starting in ’05, we needed to expand. We don’t need to expand now, we want to with the right owner, the right facility and the right market, so we’ll do it when the time is right.”
While New York is the front runner for the 20th MLS team it’s not guaranteed that they will get the team.
“We could only be committed to if we can get the deal done. We want it to happen,” said Garber. “If we can get it done in a reasonable period of time, then we’re going to go down a path to really focus on New York as a priority. But if we can’t get it done, we’ll continue to look at all those other markets that have been noisy about soccer, whether that’s all the ones I’ve mentioned in the past, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Miami.”
Read the full article here: http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2011/10/garber-talks-schedule-expansion-and-more.html
