[nas] MLS Expansion - San Antonio - article and comments

<<http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?
xla=saen&xlb=200&xlc=1052738>>

Good news - it probably would be a good market, and 
the city is on board with making a big push.

Bad news - they want to play indoors, on carpet, in 
tha Alamodome.

As much as I would love to see a team in San Antonio, 
and while I am not going to walk a protest line if MLS 
tries it, I really don't think playing on plastic is 
the way to go.

I mean, technically, the stuff in Chicago, the 
Meadowlands and Dragon Stadium are supposed to be the 
best stuff out there for soccer, and it is killing 
those players.  Chicago and Metro are adapting well, 
but it doens't change the fact that the field is hard 
on the players.

My opinion isn't based on pre-concieved notions of the 
old turf - this is based on the results of the new 
stuff, and they are not much better than the old stuff.

Too bad this is the only apparent option in San 
Antonio - as a Dallas fan, I would have loved to have 
seen a team in San Antonio and Houston.

Another negative - if San Antonio is trying to get in 
via Chivas, they need to know that MLS has already 
given Vergara a deadline and that is based on the San 
Diego dead where they have already surveyed the 
stadium.  In San Antonio, they haven't even met with 
the guy.

If San Antonio wants to have an MLS team, they need to 
find an owner/investor, and they need to find a 
facility that plays on the real stuff.


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