A bit dated but I was out of town on the 8th when this came out. The United Bid Committee, Headed by former USSF Pres., Sunil Gulati, an economics professor at Columbia has come up with this heady figure. The 5 billion is expected to boil down to a 3-4 billion after removing public costs with single host locales having $480 million positive. The job total for this time span is hoped to be 40,000 and over 1 billion in worker pay as per this study by The Boston Consulting Group. The first time it will be at 48 teams this the largest soprting event on the planet set these high numbers.
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February 18, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
Coached by Long Island soccer legend, Paul Riley, Crystal Dunn from Rockville Centre joins teammates Lynn Williams and Abby Dahlkempre as Samantha Mewis who played every game of 2017 sits this camp out with a short term knee injury. The SheBelieves Cup will be played locally at Red Bull Arena and features Germany at #2, England #3 with St John's product Rachel Daly & #6 France all travelling to #1 USA for this tourney.
read February 18, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
Picked up on the 16th, Chris played 20 minutes v Phila last night. The 22 year old defender has a one year deal with a 2 year option. The 12th overall selection in the 2017 MLS Superdraft was with DC last year getting his first minutes as a stoppage time sub v ATL in a 3-1 win April 30. Playing 482 minutes over 9 games starting 5 of them, this outside back achived a 72.7% win pct on his tackles, to go with 23 clearances and 70% or aerial duels won. Geting full games during both wins in the 2017 Lamar US Open Cup helped with his confidence.
read February 18, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
In beating their rivals to the north, United played all of the new singees of their offseason including Asad who we covered previously, making his first appearance along with Defender Oniel Fisher. In saving his second straight penalty, the pair began back on Oct. 22 v Red Bulls and we were at the game, the last played in RFK won by NYRB. Mattocks found the net for the seond time this pre seasona and Acosta his first time as Stieber gained his first assist. This win is an improvement over the 2017 record of 1-2-0 the DC had with Phila. and are now 8-9-4 overall.
read February 17, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
This game of the week on opening day is of course shown on Lifetime at 3:30 p.m. the NWSL Shield winners take on the NWSL title winners at home. Courage coach and Long Island soccer great, Paul Riley commented on the rivalry, both tremendous ownership groups and that the fans will be treated to up to 18 international soccer players.
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