Baseball NY Mets still on the run for a MLS Team - TalkSoccer

**Frank Cunha** · 03-05-2005, 10:02 PM

* BEST OF THE WEB: Second New York-Area Team?

"New York City businessman with experience in the taxi business and as a commercial lender has emerged as a likely new investor in Major League Soccer.

"Andrew Murstein, 40, the president of Medallion Financial Corporation, said he had been negotiating to buy the Kansas City Wizards from Lamar Hunt and move them to San Antonio, Las Vegas, Houston ... or perhaps New York.

"Soccer, to me, looks like the best investment in the sports world," Murstein said yesterday in a telephone interview. "Teams in other leagues have really reached their peak in market value."

Murstein said he had held discussions the past several years to purchase baseball's Milwaukee Brewers, the N.H.L.'s Anaheim Mighty Ducks and the N.B.A.'s San Antonio Spurs. He added that any deal to buy an M.L.S. team would be a personal investment and would not involve Medallion. ..."

Second New York-Area Team? By Jack Bell (New York Times, May 3)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/sp.../03soccer.html

Sinter · 04-05-2005, 07:41 PM

there's really no place to put a second team that I can think of in the new york area.

Ricochet · 04-05-2005, 07:59 PM

I would love to see multiple teams in the general NYC area including one on the Island. I think the city could handle many, many clubs if you put them in proper places to make the people of there neighborhood feel like it's there club. It's not going to happen if you have to travel to Giant Stadium or some other place just over the border in Jersey. I think a regional team on Long Island would be successful. How about Long Island United FC? I like it and the name too. I think if there was a teams in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan it would work out quite well, if they clubs were for them and not for the rest of the city.

**Frank Cunha** · 04-05-2005, 09:13 PM

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Originally posted by Sinter
there's really no place to put a second team that I can think of in the new york area.

they building a new stadium in Manhatan for the Jets and the Olympics

MUFC · 04-05-2005, 09:33 PM

I remember when i was NYC 2 months ago, they had loads of news about that new olympics stadium and they were showing the new train system and route to when its built, which is amazing. Hopefully NYC will host the olympics they deserve it

**Frank Cunha** · 04-05-2005, 10:28 PM

its between London and Paris::leedswac

Ricochet · 05-05-2005, 04:01 AM

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Originally posted by Frank Cunha
its between London and Paris::leedswac

really frank, I haven't paid to much attention to it but the last time I heard it was a 3 city race with NYC, London and Paris slightly in the lead.

revolutionfan · 07-05-2005, 04:08 PM

Only place in New York that I think would be good for a team atm is Rochester.

**Frank Cunha** · 08-05-2005, 02:34 AM

horrible attendances at Metrostars, and New England

Sinter · 08-05-2005, 03:46 AM

stadium prolly wont be up till 2010.

Deuce · 08-05-2005, 03:47 AM

The weather today was horrendous I am glad I am going to see the Revs next weekend I definetly wouldnt have gone today.

revolutionfan · 08-05-2005, 03:54 AM

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Originally posted by Frank Cunha
horrible attendances at Metrostars, and New England

50mph winds and monsoon like rain conditions, would you go?

As for Metrostars, they suck, nuff said.

**Frank Cunha** · 11-05-2005, 08:39 PM

Murten offer 1 million dollars for the Cosmos name

http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/sp...y.asp?id=46968

**Frank Cunha** · 11-05-2005, 08:41 PM

once the darling of america and world soccer, with many top players like Beckenbaur, Neskens, Bogiecevic, seninho, Tuart, Pele, etc,
it my be back in the New York area when a future buyer his willing to spend one million dollars for the ex Cosmos name

http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/sp...y.asp?id=46968

**Frank Cunha** · 11-05-2005, 08:42 PM

New ownership: Andrew Murstein, who owns a New York taxicab medallion-selling firm, wants to own a Major League Soccer team and has offered to buy the Kansas City Wizards from Lamar Hunt.

Murstein, 40, has previously tried to purchase the Milwaukee Brewers in baseball, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks of the NHL and the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA.

His interest in the MLS is reportedly a simple financial decision, not one born from a love of the game.

“Soccer, to me, looks like the best investment in the sports world,” Murstein said in a New York Times interview. “Teams in other leagues have really reached their peak in market value.”

If the sale is approved, Murstein may consider moving the team to San Antonio, where the league has already negotiated a deal to play in the Alamo Dome. He is also considering the New York area, home of the New Jersey-based MetroStars.

For the New York idea, Murstein said he has offered more than $1 million for the rights to the name “Cosmos,’’ the popular New York team from previous American professional soccer leagues. That name is owned by a man named Peppe Pinton.

Murstein’s family owns $200 million worth of taxicab medallions in New York City. A cab owner must have a medallion to operate legally in the city, and each medallion costs about $250,000 to acquire