Joey Saputo - Elected Chairman of the Board of Governors for the new league

The owners of the Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina RailHawks, Miami FC, Minnesota Thunder, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC, formerly of the United Soccer Leagues First Division (USL-1), together with St. Louis Soccer United announced that they have formed a new professional soccer league to play in the United States and Canada beginning in April 2010. (more…)

“The Montreal Impact announced Friday it had sold more than 42,000 tickets for the quarterfinal game of the CONCACAF Champions League, on February 25, at Olympic Stadium against Mexican club Santos Laguna. With this milestone, the Impact has established a new sales record for a CONCACAF game.” Nice one.

“In what may be the final nail in his bid for a 2011 MLS franchise, Eugene Melnyk, owner of the Ottawa Senators and founder of Biovail Corp. has agreed to pay a civil fine of $1,000,001 in a case brought against the drugmaker over their accounting practices. ”

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“The drawback is we don’t yet have a definitive stadium resolution and that’s the biggest drawback,” Garber said after spending two days in Ottawa. Garber was impressed with Ottawa’s grass-roots development and plans for a stadium complex. The city of Ottawa will have to decide by March.

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“Are we talking a football stadium that could accommodate soccer or a soccer stadium that could accommodate football? Does Ottawa want a CFL team or an MLS team, or both? The battle is about to begin.

Ahead of this, Commissioner Don Garber and president Mark Abbott will fly into Ottawa late Monday and take in a flurry of meetings Tuesday.”

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Not a good week for Mexico.