Four Stadiums for San Antonio
James Hope on 28 March 2011 in Alamo City Ultras, Crocketteers Soccer, Crocketteers.com, General, Major League Soccer, NASL, San Antonio, Spurs Sports & Entertainment, Stadium, STAR Soccer Complex, Trinity University, USL, UTSAby Chris Hockman-San Antonio Soccer Examiner
The largest debate in San Antonio surrounding soccer is stadiums. With Gordon Hartman having his request for government funding for a stadium for NASL’s San Antonio Scorpions shut down.
It’s not all bad for Hartman who has vowed to find a way to bring about a stadium for his club even if it takes funding it from his own pocket, a decision that must be commended, with Hartman putting his money where his mouth is.
Remarkably San Antonio could see four soccer stadiums in the next few years, and that’s excluding the stadium already built in Cibolo, just outside of San Antonio.
Obviously Scorpions Stadium looms as a possibility, there is no doubt something needs to happen with this stadium soon if the Scorpions are to begin play for the 2012 NASL season.
Beyond that there are three other proposals for soccer stadia in San Antonio.
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since i am a UTSA alumni, i would love nothing more than a Professional team at UTSA stadium so im bias. But the Trinity option (at least currently) seems the most viable because of location (center of town) rather than NW of SA (see FCD). Of course, if SAISD decides to move forward with SS&E, then that would become the most logical choice.
Still im wondering if SS&E could get a better rate from going with the Trinity or UTSA option. I mean either school must love the idea of training on the same field as a professional team to promote professionalism and for bragging rights on recruiting purposes. Not to mention the level might be raised by training with professionals. And SS&E could get a better deal in terms and newer soccer specific (which is what MLS Dan Garber wants) stadium?