New York City FC supporters were given a promise of an extended-awaited new stadium by way of club CEO Brad Sims.
The Cityzens had been pressured to play at Yankee Stadium seeing that getting into Major League Soccer in 2015. Fixture clashes with the New York Yankees have even pressured them to play at Citi Field and Red Bull Area - the home of their Hudson River derby competitors, the New York Red Bulls.
The membership have regularly been mocked for the atypical layout inside Yankee Stadium, with a notoriously slim football pitch wedged onto a baseball field and the haphazard placing of supporters within the stands.
But matters may be about to change. During their MLS Cup celebrations outdoor City Hall on Tuesday afternoon - in which NYCFC players have been given the keys to the metropolis by means of Mayor Bill de Blasio - Sims made a pledge after having his speech interrupted through chants of "we need a stadium" from supporters.
“I’m here these days to promise you that we are able to not prevent pursuing trophies and we can clearly construct you a stadium,” Sims stated (through MLSsoccer.Com). “It’s a promise.”
Sims' promise comes rapidly after it emerged that plans are in location to convey Pep Guardiola to NYCFC once he leaves Manchester City.
The Spaniard's modern-day deal on the Etihad Stadium runs until 2023 and, as mentioned through 90min, it's understood this will be the point wherein he departs European football for MLS. But sources have additionally indicated appointing Guardiola alongside the opening of a brand new soccer-unique stadium would be the favored circulate for NYCFC.
Prior to NYCFC's MLS Cup overcome the Portland Timbers, league commissioner Don Garber expressed his self assurance that the membership will sooner or later find a home of their very own, although he did strain the need for persistence locating space inside the tight confines of New York.
“The state of affairs in New York as continues to adapt,” he stated (through Front Row Soccer). “The possession group is focused they preserve to work in a number of extraordinary possibilities. You’ve read approximately those. There’s no mystery to what each their demanding situations are and what their possibilities are.
“I harken again to getting requested this question. In D.C. It took them twenty years to construct out a area. Now, I’m not pronouncing it’s going to take that lengthy with NYCFC, however we’ve got to get it proper. It’s not easy to construct stadiums in huge cities, and New York is the largest in our league. So, I’m confident in time they’ll be able to have a stadium of their personal I wish I’m still commissioner at that time.”
