Re: RE: [nas] Chivas news

> From: squarepass@optonline.net
>
> There is a moral to this somewhere concerning the MLS and the Mexican club 
> playing in it. Like what does the league gain by having this club with all 
> it's foreign players in the league? Money is not enough reason....
My guess is higher attendance, which translates into money anyway. Listen to 
this:
One time I went to KC on a weeknight to see the Wiz play Monarcos Morelia in 
some tournament I don't even remember what it was, I just have this vague 
memory that it wasn't a friendly. Now, KC on a weeknight draws 3 to 4,000 
stalwart fans. It's a practically empty stadium for weeknight games. But 
when a mexican league team is in town, different story. There were probably 
12,000+ Morelia supporters there and I think fewer than a thousand Wiz 
supporters. And it was a cold night in November, I think.
Same thing happened when Santos Laguna came to town. Huge numbers of mexican 
fans came out to watch, more than the Morelia game, but I think it was a 
weekend and warm weather.
So when Chivas del norte comes to your MLS town, not only will thousands of 
hispanics show up to cheer them on, judging by the tone of some of these 
emails, maybe hundreds more will show up to cheer against them.
Just a theory I'm working on. For a taste of what's ahead be sure to catch 
the Guadalajara derby (Chivas/Atlas) tomorrow live at 8pm EST on Telefutura.
MikeB,StL,Mo,USA
Evertonian before Evertonian
became chic  ;]



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