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US Major League Soccer could expand to Barbados
CMC
Posted: 2/17/2009 12:22:40 PM
OTTOWA, Canada – Barbados-based Canadian businessman Eugene Melnyk has met with US Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner Don Garber and President Mark Abbott to discuss Melnyk’s plans for an MLS expansion team.
Garber and Abbott had a series of meetings with Melnyk, who also owns the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise Ottawa Senators.
A champion racehorse owner in Canada, Melnyk, who gives his horses names of places in Barbados, is making a bid for an MLS team to begin play in 2011.
It is reported that the biggest agenda item during the meetings was financing for a soccer stadium, a stated prerequisite for any prospective MLS expansion.
While Melnyk is prepared to provide the US$40 million expansion fee, he is asking for public funding help for a proposed US$110-million soccer-specific stadium in a space adjacent to Scotiabank Place, home of the Senators.
There was no announcement on Ottawa's standing in the MLS expansion race, but Commissioner Garber noted that Ottawa is an attractive location for MLS to look at.
“The only drawback at present is that there is no stadium,” Garber stated
US Major League Soccer could expand to Barbados
CMC
Posted: 2/17/2009 12:22:40 PM
OTTOWA, Canada – Barbados-based Canadian businessman Eugene Melnyk has met with US Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner Don Garber and President Mark Abbott to discuss Melnyk’s plans for an MLS expansion team.
Garber and Abbott had a series of meetings with Melnyk, who also owns the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise Ottawa Senators.
A champion racehorse owner in Canada, Melnyk, who gives his horses names of places in Barbados, is making a bid for an MLS team to begin play in 2011.
It is reported that the biggest agenda item during the meetings was financing for a soccer stadium, a stated prerequisite for any prospective MLS expansion.
While Melnyk is prepared to provide the US$40 million expansion fee, he is asking for public funding help for a proposed US$110-million soccer-specific stadium in a space adjacent to Scotiabank Place, home of the Senators.
There was no announcement on Ottawa's standing in the MLS expansion race, but Commissioner Garber noted that Ottawa is an attractive location for MLS to look at.
“The only drawback at present is that there is no stadium,” Garber stated
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