Single-game tickets for Seattle Sounders FC’s opener March 19 sold out Monday morning, the team announced. Single-game tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. today. The club has changed the seating configuration for the opener against the New York Red Bulls. Qwest Field will accommodate 32,400 for that game.
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“When we started this process eight months ago, it was a very different time,” Miami businessman Marcelo Claure told the Sun Sentinel on Thursday night at an event in Miami. “We’re not sure the business model works in difficult economic times. … The timing may not be right for what we’re trying to do.”
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FC Barcelona director Jean Oliver said at a news conference (on Friday) that the club’s quest to have an MLS team is “very delicate, and we are evaluating if the situation allows for the model planned to be implemented in Miami or not.”
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“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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“In the wake of the news that Portland’s mayor Sam Adams lied about having a sexual relationship with a teenager, a source inside the Major League Soccer offices told me this week that the professional league is asking a lot of pointed questions of the hopeful local ownership group.”
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