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Post by epjr on Jan 28, 2011 11:37:37 GMT -6
IT'S OFFICIALwww.montrealmls2012.com/After months of negotiations, MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced in Montreal on Friday that Canada’s second-largest city will become home to the league’s 19th franchise, to begin play in the 2012 season. Joey Saputo, owner of the USSF D2 Montreal Impact, will also assume ownership of the expansion team, which will play at a newly renovated Saputo Stadium. The natural-grass venue will undergo approximately US$22 million in expansion to accommodate crowds of 20,000, some 7,000 more than its current capacity. www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/passionate-montreal-named-19th-mls-cityAdditionally, the new team will play a select number of games at nearby Olympic Stadium, the 66,000-seat venue that once was home to the Montreal Expos.
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Post by epjr on Jan 28, 2011 11:38:51 GMT -6
Impact de Montréal - MLS 2012, projet d'expansion The stadium expansion will be completed the winter of 2011. The Quebec provenical government will fund the majority of the renovations. Stadium Expansion Project
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Post by epjr on Jan 28, 2011 18:03:50 GMT -6
The season is over for both the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Montreal Impact and now begins the weeding out process to see which players are fit to make the jump to Major League Soccer. It's already in full swing among the Whitecaps, who join MLS along with the Portland Timbers for the 2011 season that begins in March. Montreal has another full season of USSF Division-2 play before it enters MLS in 2012. "They're where we were at this time last year," Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi said Tuesday of the Impact. "You feel like you have a lot of time but, before you know it, you're only five months away. "It seems like a long time, but it's not." www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/2010/10/19/impact-whitecaps--0/
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