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I really wanted to touch on this story yesterday but work kept me from getting around to it. The word is that Don Garber is about to throw Miami a bit of a bone by meeting with their fan groups. But like some South Florida fans are saying it is definitely time for folks in…[continue reading]

Since FC Barcalona gave up on Miami soccer for Major League Soccer the fans in the area have had little to get excited about when it comes to MLS talk. Turns out today the supporters down in Miami are trying to do something about it. Mad About Futbol and Miami Soccer Fan have begun a…[continue reading]

Editor’s note: This is the second column but Geoff Reid. As mentioned before Geoff will be writing on WVH from time to time. Today he tackles the fun that has been the 2011 expansion race. With the 2009 MLS season about to kick off this week and everything that’s happened the week gone by, I…[continue reading]

We started with seven and now with a couple weeks left before the league’s decision on expansion we have four cities in the running. With today’s news about Miami getting dropped from consideration one has to wonder which of the final four will the league go with? For weeks I had said that since the…[continue reading]

Now we are down to four. Major League Soccer has made their decision today. No Miami Expansion. The biggest reason being adverse market conditions. “I want to thank both FC Barcelona and Marcelo Claure for the tremendous effort to bring an MLS expansion team to Miami,” said MLS Commissioner Don Garber. “FC Barcelona is one…[continue reading]

It sounds like another MLS expansion bid could be dead. Marcelo Claure told newspapers in Bolivia (thanks to Marc S. for the translation) that there is now a 50% chance that Miami could get an expansion bid with Major League Soccer. Claure states that “today I would say that this [Miami franchise] will not happen”.…[continue reading]

Sorry Miami folks. There just won’t be any news regarding your potential MLS club today. Earlier some had thought there would be news regarding Marcelo Claure and his visit with Barcelona FC in Spain. But according to Total Futbol in Miami there will be no news given today. Any notion that an announcement would be…[continue reading]

Talk about some crazy and potentially huge news for some. According to the Miami Herald (and some other Spanish reports) Barcelona could be backing out of the Miami expansion bid due to the current economy. But on Friday, FC Barcelona director Jean Oliver said at a news conference that the club’s quest to have an…[continue reading]

One thing that may be worrying some down South is time. Time is definitely not working all that well with the efforts to get a MLS team back in Miami. Marcelo Claure and FC Barcelona had hoped by now to have been granted an MLS expansion franchise that would begin play at FIU in 2010.…[continue reading]

We started a few months ago with seven hopefuls. Now we are looking at just five. Montreal cooled their jets about MLS expansion back at MLS Cup  and Atlanta did the same last week during the SuperDraft. Five cities remain in what is starting to sound like a nasty episode of Survivor. Portland, Vancouver, Ottawa,…[continue reading]