Globe & Mail: Whitecaps Win MLS Expansion Race!

[termatofylakas]

By circus do you mean the streamers? If so then I will join you Regs. Also I hope they won't have the mascot flipping the sign for the crowd to chant White Caps.

By the way I also don't care if TFC is Canadian I'm still gonna cheer for Seattle over them when they play until Vancouver is in the show. After that TFC and Seattle become rivals 1 and 1A. Can't wait for 2011!

P.S. Please never acquire Landon Donovan

 

[italian_stallion21]

P.S. Please never acquire Landon Donovan

This will result in immediate cancellation of season tickets.

 

[girth]

Cool! I will go to these games if the price is right.

 

[SofaKingGood]

For those of you wanting season tix, here is how they prioritize them when they allocate the tickets later on in the future ( in order ) :
1) existing season tix holders
2) existing 5 game pack holders
3) the lucky ones that call in to get the 5000 tix available this saturday
4) down the road they will have another call in time to grab the remaining tickets, I;m guessing another 5000

I believe they wanna cap season tix at around 16,000 out of the 20,000 capacity

 

[Dude]

20,000 capacity? At BC Place? We're talking about the same building?

 

[oranje]

20,000 capacity? At BC Place? We're talking about the same building?

Lower bowl only, in soccer configuration.

 

[SofaKingGood]

just hope it has good sight lines and feel to it because it is a big building to only have 20k

 

[WaterBreak]

Is there any t.v. deals in the works?
thats would be awesome if we got regularly televised games.
the lower bowl at b.c. place stadium will hold 35,000. chances are they may do the same thing the lions do, sell a curtain amount of tickets, open it up.
with the open air stadium and the lower bowl holding 20,000 screaming fans, it will be a great enviroment for football.

 

[kjohnsob]

where you guys been? this has been beaten to death.

sure the lowerbowl may hold 35k but with no endzone(s)....

 

[Shriner]

No end zones? So where the hooligans gonna be?

 

[bulljive]

Bobaduzzi was dropping Thierry Henry as the big name potentially coming to Vancouver. Apparently Henry and Nash are friends.

 

[kjohnsob]

No end zones? So where the hooligans gonna be?

JBN said standing terrace for hooligans.

 

[colemanj]

CBC is the home for soccer in Canada. Expect us to be there in 2011.

 

[bergamascho]

P.S. Please never acquire Landon Donovan

Why sign LD when we can really take the piss out of TFC and lure DeRosario away from them!!!

 

[Regs]

What could Vancouver possibly offer to lure DeRo away from his hometown?

Interesting photo in the Province this morning that showed the Caps celebrating their championship this past fall - Sebrango, Clarkey and Freddy are front and centre.

 

[Kevin Hector]

I have four questions 1) Will they bring back super socco? 2) was that Italian Stallion on the cover of the Metro? 3) will they still wear Umbro? or do they have toswitch to Adidas as alll team in the MLS have to wear Adidas (I think) and Finally 4) will tehy play on Grass or Turf?

 

[Polska]

to avoid further confussion : There will be ENDZONE SEATS

 

[trece verde]

Not sure about tehy, but the "Vancouver MLS franchise" (not the Whitecaps - at least yet) will be playing on FIFA-approved turf.

Carry on...

Trece

 

[Alberta RFC]

1) Will they bring back super socco?

Fcuking Rights they should!!!!

 

[zenga]

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