MLS Impact de Montréal

[ErickMontreal]

L'Impact au Stade, mais...

 

8 Janvier 2009 - 10h41

Corus Sports)- L'aire de jeu du Stade olympique de Montréal sera disponible pour la présentation du match quart-de-finale de la CONCACAF, à trois conditions.

 

Les conditions sont les suivantes :

 

1) qu'il n'y ait aucune accumulation de neige ou de glace sur la toiture au début de l'événement;

 

2) qu'il n'y ait aucune accumulation de glace sur la façade de la Tour ou sur les câbles de suspension entre la Tour et le toit;

 

3) et, qu'à 24 heures de l'événement, aucune précipitation de neige ou de verglas ne soit prévue pendant la durée de l'événement.

 

 

La porte n'est cependant pas close à la présentation du match le jour prévu, mais toute autre situation devra faire l'objet d'un examen spécifique et sera sujette à l'acceptation du Comité conjoint formé du Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal et de la Régie du bâtiment du Québec.

 

Le match quart-de-finale peut être disputé sur une fenêtre de trois jours, du mardi 24 au jeudi 26 février. Cependant, puisque le Canadien joue le mardi, l'Impact prévoierait le match pour le mercredi 25 février, avec possibilité de reprise le 26, en cas d'intempéries.

 

Sébastien Goulet / Corus Sports

[Habsfan]

Bonne nouvelle pour L'impact. J,ai lintention d'y aller!

[ErickMontreal]

VIDÉO* Le Stade Saputo de 20 000 sièges

 

(Corus Sports)- Lorsque Joey Saputo a posé sa candidature pour obtenir une formation de la MLS, il n'a eu d'autres choix que de présenter les plans d'un stade de 20 000 places, tel que l'exige les critères de la ligue. Pour la première fois, voyez ce à quoi ressemblerait un Stade Saputo de 20 000 places.

 

En plus de l'augmentation de la capacité de 7 000 sièges, le nouveau Stade Saputo aurait compris des loges corporatives au niveau supérieur.

 

Rappelons que l'Impact a soumis une candidature de près de 45 millions $ à la MLS. Ce montant comprenait le rachat de la franchise ainsi que les travaux d'agrandissement du Stade Saputo.

 

La MLS a balayé du revers de la main le dossier du Groupe Saputo, demandant au moins 50 millions $ uniquement pour la franchise.

 

Au total, les coûts des travaux d'agrandissement étaient chiffrés à près de 15 millions $.

 

Sous sa forme actuelle, le Stade Saputo peut accueillir 13 000 partisans. Érigé de 2007 à 2008, il aura coûté 15 millions $ à construire.

 

Les images du Stade Saputo de 20 000 sièges débutent à 5:20.

 

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FlYZN4wPiXg&eurl=http://www.corussports.com/impact/video_stade_saputo_20-20081224-1339203.html

[Habsfan]

Merci pour le lien Erickmontréal!

 

C'était vraiment intéressant. Je trouve ça vraiment dommage que la Ligue(MLS) soit rendu vraiment aussi avare. Non seulement est ce que la MLS aurait pu acceuillir une franchise SOLIDE, avec deux familles solides(financièrement) en tant que propriétaires, mais aussi une ville ou le Football(soccer) est déjà populaire et est en croissance.

 

À cause qu,ils sont rendu aussi avare, Montréal n'aura pas son équipe d,ici 2010-2011.

 

Ce qui me fais le plus chier dans tout ça c'est que Toronto a payé 10 millions$ pour avoir sa franchise en 2005ou 2006 et la MLS s'attend à ce que les nouvelles équipes payent 40 millions$ 2 ans plus tard...quel bull shit!

[Malek]

MLS will play ball

if stadium built

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‘Almost inconceivable’ Ottawa wouldn’t get expansion team

 

Therewas a little something missing in the proposal to build $110-million soccer stadium in Kanata. A team. But now that problem appears to be solved.

ANDRE FORGET / SUN MEDIA FILE PHOTO

Senators owner Eugne Melnyk said yesterday the odds are a soccer franchise would outlast a CFL team in the city. Melnyk wants to bring a Major League Soccer team to Ottawa to anchor a 20,000-seat stadium he wants built in Kanata.

 

“It’s highly unlikely and almost inconceivable that with a stadium deal in place we would not grant an expansion team to Ottawa,” Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber said yesterday.

 

Eugene Melnyk’s Senators Sports & Entertainment is competingwith Ottawa Sports Entertainment — a group of local businessmen that includes 67’s owner Jeff Hunt — to build the city’s 20,000seat outdoor concert stadium. OSE has been granted a conditional CFL franchise and wants to renovate Frank Clair Stadium as part of a redevelopment of Lansdowne Park.

 

Now that SS&E has effectively been granted a conditional MLS franchise, both stadium proposals have an anchor tenant to support the concerts, festivals and other events the city hopes to attract.

 

And a pro soccer franchise is the safer bet to be a longterm tenant, Melnyk said via conference call to a Sun editorial board yesterday.

 

$50M bet

 

“If I was willing tomakemy bet— and I’m making a $50million bet myself personally on this (the cost of purchasing the MLS franchise) — what will be around 25 years from now?” Melnyk said.

 

“Will it be soccer, or will it be CFL football? I’ll lay my money on soccer. It is the sport of the world, and it is just a question of time of when it would reach our shores.”

 

Under the soccer proposal, the city would still own the land and the stadium, but Melnyk is looking for a 30-year agreement—“Basically, I calculatedmy lifespan,” he joked — tomanage the facility.

 

He promised to bring the same commitment to the soccer franchise that he’s brought to the Senators.

 

“We’re here to stay, we’re going tomake this thing work with whatever resources it takes to make it work,” said Melnyk, who also pledged the Senators will never leave Ottawa as long as he owns the team.

 

The two teams would be linked in more ways than proximity. SS&E would leverage existing resources, such as staff, parking and other “synergies.”

 

“What we have to be able to convince (council) is that our proposal is a win-win for the city,” Melnyk said. “When I came to Ottawa, I never ever, ever appreciated the importance of the Ottawa Senators to the city. The Senators are now fully integrated into the community, we’ve made that happen.

 

“We went in with an attitude of success, and not an attitude of fear. For the fans, we made them passionate about the sport.

 

“We told them we would be around for a long, long time and I think that’s what we need to convince the councillors— wewillmake this a success, regardless.”

[ErickMontreal]

Un record de la CONCACAF: 42 000 billets vendus!

 

MONTRÉAL - L'Impact de Montréal a annoncé vendredi avoir déjà vendu plus de 42 000 billets pour son match de quart de finale de la Ligue des Champions de la CONCACAF, qui aura lieu le 25 février au Stade olympique.

L'Impact a du même coup établi un nouveau record de vente pour un match de la CONCACAF. En 2005, environ 40 000 personnes avaient assisté à la finale de la Coupe des Champions opposant Pumas UNAM (Mexique) et Deportivo Saprissa (Costa Rica).

 

« À un peu moins de deux semaines du match, les amateurs continuent de démontrer leur intérêt pour ce match historique, a déclaré le vice-président exécutif de l'Impact de Montréal Richard Legendre. Avec le retour de notre équipe à Montréal aujourd'hui et la reprise des entraînements au Stade olympique, nous croyons que l'intérêt pour le match va monter d'un cran. Les ventes pourraient atteindre des chiffres inespérés.»

[Habsfan]

...et c'est Ottawa qui va avoir une calisse de franchise de la MLS????

 

Quelle Bull-Shit!! Calisse qu'on est pissou au Québec!!! Venezx pas me dire que Gillett et Saputo ensemble n'ont pas autant, sinon pas plus d'argent que Melnyk?!?!

[ErickMontreal]

Big Impact

 

The Montreal Impact normally stage their home games at the 13,000-seat Saputo Stadium, but will play the home leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final at the Olympic Stadium. The Montreal Impact normally stage their home games at the 13,000-seat Saputo Stadium, but will play the home leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final at the Olympic Stadium. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press

 

Last Updated: Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 4:32 PM ET

by John F. Molinaro, CBC Sports

 

The Canadiens may have fallen on hard times lately, but another sports franchise that calls Montreal home is flying high.

 

The Montreal Impact are in the quarter-finals the CONCACAF Champions League and preparing to host Mexico's Santos Laguna Wednesday at Olympic Stadium (CBC Bold, CBCSports.ca, 8 p.m. ET) in the opener of a two-game playoff, the biggest game in the team's history.

 

The Impact normally play at the outdoor Saputo Stadium, but the cold and snowy weather that Montreal routinely sees during February forced the team to move the game under the roof of the Olympic Stadium.

The "Big O"

 

Competing in the United Soccer League First Division, the Impact routinely sell out the 13,000-seat Saputo Stadium and lead the USL-1 in attendance but the team is expecting as many as 50,000 fans to pass through the turnstiles on Wednesday.

 

"There's a lot of buzz in the city. For myself, as someone who has been around soccer in this city for over 20 years, this will be a very historic moment," Nick De Santis, general manager of the Impact, told CBCSports.ca.

 

Not since the days of the defunct North American Soccer League, when the Montreal Manic drew 58,000 fans for a playoff game against the Chicago Sting in 1981, has the city been swept up in soccer fever quite like this.

 

The Impact's strong showing in the first round of the Champions League — where it posted impressive victories over Trinidadian champions Joe Public FC and Olimpia of Honduras, and earned a credible draw with Mexico's Atlante — has led to new interest in the club from Montreal sports fans.

 

"We've opened people's eyes with our success in this tournament and that was a big step for us because we've convinced people that we can play at a high level and we've seen the response," De Santis said.

"We've sold 45,000 tickets and we're hoping to draw over 50,000 fans, and that just goes to show the interest of people that are just catching on to us now."

 

It's not just the fans who are excited; the Impact players themselves are just as energized.

 

"The response from our fans and the city has been great. It hasn't gone unnoticed by the players," said Impact goalkeeper Matt Jordan. "People are very excited that soccer is being played in our city this time of the year. I think it's going to be a great atmosphere."

 

Montreal a hotbed of soccer

 

Jordan, who joined the Impact in 2007 after a brief time playing in Denmark and stints with three Major League Soccer clubs, believes that the level of interest and attendance for Wednesday's game proves that Montreal is a burgeoning soccer hotbed.

 

"Obviously, playing in front of a big crowd like that gives an indication about how this city feels about soccer. I've said it all along, and I've played abroad in Europe and in three cities in MLS over a 10-year period: I really feel that Montreal has the potential to be one of the top soccer markets in North America," Jordan said.

Playing in front of a big crowd like the one expected for Wednesday's game is far from the norm for the Impact, but Jordan said he and his teammates aren't nervous about it.

 

"I've played in front of some big crowds. When I played in Denmark we participated in the UEFA Cup so there were some big crowds there," he said.

 

"When I played in Dallas, we used to play some big games against Mexican first division teams, and we would get big crowds for those games. There were a lot of big games during my time in MLS, so it's always fun to play in that type of setting."

 

Of course, there's no guarantee that the game will take place as scheduled.

 

The Impact needed approval from three government agencies that regulate building safety in order to hold the match at the Olympic Stadium, which is normally closed during the winter.

 

If snow or ice accumulates on the roof before the game, it will be rescheduled for Thursday, but De Santis believes Mother Nature will co-operate.

 

"We're not worried about the weather," said the Impact GM.

[Habsfan]

Good news for the Impact...now let's move them to the MLS!

[Ornello Mastrocola]

Anyone know if this game is being televised?