The North American Soccer League will hold it's Annual General Meeting tomorrow in Miami's Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Biscayne Bay. The event takes place on November 7 and 8 and will bring together representatives from all existing NASL teams starting with the current Champions Puerto Rico Islanders, Carolina RailHawks, Montreal Impact, Miami FC Blues, FC Tampa Bay, Crystal Palace Baltimore and new expansion team FC Edmonton. Also attending will be representatives of two teams that still don't meet USSF's new standards AC St. Louis and NSC Minnesota Stars who are in process of acquiring new investors.Not attending as you may imagine will be the Rochester Rhinos as they aligned themselves with USL Pro and The Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps who will play in MLS next season.
Several topics will be covered including tentative schedule for next season, league staff and future expansion.
The NASL, while busy planning for the 2011 season, was surprised by league member Rochester Rhinos’ announcement earlier this week that they plan to play at the USSF third division level (USL PRO) despite their multi-year commitment with the NASL. The NASL is evaluating all of its options and will proceed accordingly. “It’s unfortunate that the Rochester Rhinos, a team with such a successful track record over its fifteen year history at the second division level, is stepping down to third division," said Aaron Davidson, CEO of the NASLRead more HERE
9 comments:
Will they finally announce they will be the Strikers?
Crystal Palace does not meet the financial requirements, so that only leave a Miami trip for 6 morons and a donkey.
can you post updates from the meeting?
Strikers FC jump to the MLS.
We will try to update once the meetings are over this afternoon. Be sure to go to the NASL site http://nasl.com/ for the latest information.
We will try to dig up whatever we can.
Screw the Rhinos, bring back the Cosmos!
By the way Uncle Ed, nasl.com is hardly the latest information.
Pinche NASL site no update... chingada madre!
No one answer Burrito's calls!
The sooner NASL is gone the sooner we can get MLS in either Miami or Fort Lauderdale. Traffic/NASL are ruining the market for MLS. The idea of a professional team playing at Tropical Park was always laughable. The moves to Lockhart and FIU both good venues came after the rot had set in. Besides both venues are suitable for an actual professional team, not a group of professional players paid by an amateur organization that couldn't even run a U-8 girls team properly. I say fire Traffic and NASL.
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