As a part of the team’s marketing campaign for the its home opener, a video was projected onto buildings throughout New York City to generate awareness and interest in the team.
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As you may have heard last night was Real’s first game in the new Rio Tinto Stadium. I treated my Father and a local lovely to a night by the pitch. My hat is off to the cats that made their vision a reality. I think this going to be great for the local community and the MLS league all together.
The Red Bulls Arena - Built by Mikita site is online, complete with a webcam on the construction site in Harrison, NJ.
Over the next month, they’ll start structural steel erection for the main seating bowl; and over the next seven months, Red Bull expects to erect the steel to support the dynamic form roof, 60 feet of which will be translucent.
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It wasn’t just the 90+ degree temperature in the NYC area that was making things hot this weekend, clearly it was Becks who was in town with the LA Galaxy. For the Red Bulls, it meant attendance over 40,000 and for the local gals, high hopes to get a glimpse of Becks shirtless!
With Giants Stadium, the Red Bulls home turf (but not for long!), being a stone’s throw from my Weehawken, NJ apartment, I couldn’t help but brave the sweltering heat for a glimpse. And, truthfully, as a soccer fan, I knew it’d be a great match and there was a part of me that wanted to see the home team take the victory against the Galaxy again this year!
Even though Becks was on the field, the hometown team received the lion share of support. And, that’s what you gotta love about New Yorkers - - always cheering for their home team! Not to be forgotten, Landon Donovan was also in town, arguably one of the best player’s in the league drawing many of his own fans to the game as there was no shortage of kids and adults donning the Donovan jersey! And, hey, he lived up to his own hype by knocking one into the back of the net in the 92nd minute saving the Galaxy from a loss, the game ending in a 2-2 draw.
So, look, yeah, I’m a chick and Becks is easy on the eyes, but more than thanking his parents for their incredible gift to women (and some men!), if you’re a MLS fan, you’ve gotta thank MLS for this move and thank him kicking the sport up a notch in the U.S. As they would say across the pond, “Cheers mate…”
Annie
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Delivery day finally came. We had been talking about how we had a delivery of shirts that was due on Saturday, and luckily everything turned out great. There was very little time to spare, but as often happens, things got finished at the last minute, but the outcome was a big success.
Read more and see more pictures after the jump.
