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13 thoughts on “MLS commissioner: Indy doing ‘everything right’ in bid to join league

    1. Not for at least 10-15 years. They will have 30 teams by 2025. There are teams in Cincy, St. Louis, Nashville and Chicago. I don’t see Indianapolis have an MLS team any time soon.

    2. It feels like Indianapolis is late to the party because they were counting on Ozdemir, who MLS has made clear won’t be an owner in their league.

      So, IMO, they were right to pull the plug on the Ozedmir stadium project, which in addition to preventing Indy from ever getting a team would also have cost taxpayers more money than anticipated.

      But I agree with Corey … it will be a few years until Indianapolis gets a team, in part because no other city is anywhere close and it doesn’t make sense to go to only 31 teams. And, they’ve done expanding at the moment.

    3. The MLS wants to get to 32 teams sooner than later and it appears Indy has likely jumped Tampa and Las Vegas to get one of those last 2 teams. The city is pushing because Keystone didn’t have the juice and there is an opportunity to get this done for the city now.

      To MLS, having multiple teams close together is a way to create additional interest and pump attendance.

  1. The Mayor is being played like a fool. MLS is not coming to Indy. What MLS wanted was to sink another USL club and their high profile stadium. Garber had successfully done that now. Mission accomplished. Watch for the narrative to flip soon.

    1. Flip to what – thanking Garber for not giving Ozedmir a giant white elephant of a stadium that taxpayers will be paying for, for a team destined to never get promoted to MLS?

      If Indianapolis is going to be stuck with minor league soccer forever, what’s the point in building a new stadium? Did we build the Indians a MLB-quality stadium for 40,000 people?

      The Eleven may as well throw in with the Rugby folks and share a field with them.

    2. Thaut’s…not what’s happening. At all. Indy taxpayers just saved a bundle, and we’re not building a stadium on sacred burial grounds. Win-win.

  2. The Indy Eleven stadium seemed the appropriate size, and it was part of development for an important part of the city. The “sacred burial grounds” were long since removed. One can only hope this mess ends positively for the sport of soccer and the city.

    1. It was going to take even more taxpayer funds and they keep finding bodies.

      It will end well if Ozdemir lets it end well. But it’s clear … he will never be able to land an MLS expansion team. He’s had multiple chances and never gotten it done, and now the cost will be multiple millions higher.

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