I was anticipating a Pirlo free kick joke but the judges are telling me this is acceptable.
NYCFC Training Facility Thread
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Really? The residents in Purchase fought a training ground on the Manhattanville Campus that would of added about 50 cars coming and going to a road that has thousands of cars a day. Our facility wound up on the same road 1/2 mile away.
never underestimate people complaining about anything.
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From what I can see they can fit more than 2 fields on there. But maybe they will and get the area as and it.
From what I can see they can fit more than 2 fields on there. But maybe they will and get the area as and it.
I wonder if they also consider affordability of apartments in the area. Some of the players are making $40k, a lot of them are probably living near the training center and only commuting in for games.
so this kills any idea of having an nycfc 2? i mean if they wont have a mini stadium for it ( meeting USL regulations) in the training facility then it will be difficult to do so anywhere else ( unless they play in the new stadium if and when that happens).
If you go to google maps and search for land NYCFC is trying to buy you will find that there is a very successful soccer academy with a clubhouse and 5 soccer fields http://www.wcsocceracademy.org/ .
You wonder whether NYCFC is also looking to buy them as well it would be a very smart move if they did.
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You wonder whether NYCFC is also looking to buy them as well it would be a very smart move if they did.
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I don't think I'd go that far. No-one said that NYCFC 2 has to be based at the training facility. Besides, it wasn't so long ago that people here were arguing the virtues of basing a USL club in up-state NY or further up the coast.
World Class plays in a facility owned by the the town of Orangetown, so it's not for sale.
Luckily they're our affiliate so we get first crack at their youth prospects.
I would think that if a player is making $40k the team somehow pays the rent. Like the team rents the apt and lets 3 guys use it rent free.
I would imagine the league has some type of rules restricting to ngs like that. It would be too easy to get around the salary cap.
I see your point, and how some of that stuff could end up going overboard, but the league may look at it from a reasonability standpoint.
Paying an extra $3-4k per month so that 3 low income guys can rent an apt in one of the highest cost of living areas is quite reasonable.
Now, on the other hand, if we were to rent out a penthouse suite to a guy just under the DP level and provide him with a car, etc, etc.....I think that is more of what the league would be worried about.
true but in order to play in USL apparently they are pushing for teams to play in a 3K stadium or something like that. so by the time nycfc2 comes in that would probably be an established rule.
unless like you said playing in a high school/college field somewhere upstate becomes the option.
They do, the team can only foot moving expenses up to a certain amount. ~$2k IIRC as per the CBA.
I don't know if it's necessary considering they are already in our affiliate group, but honestly it might make a lot of sense to merge our academy with World Class FC.
Their location is really good. If you draw a 1 hour 15 minute circle around their academy, it goes all the way south past New Brunswick in New Jersey, up to Poughkeepsie in the north, to New Haven in the east, and also covers all five boroughs. That's a really good range of plausible travel distances.
Merging the academy with World Class FC would also double the size of the training facility.
I can see why they picked this spot anyway.
If the CBA was well written (no chance in hell), then it would include something like what the military has. Depending on which city a player is in, they get a housing multiplier/allowance to offset the cost of living; that way players don't resent having to relocate from an affordable city (like Columbus) to a less-than-affordable city like NYC.Because as it stands right now, $60K goes a hell of a lot farther in Columbus and Salt Lake City than it does in NYC and Seattle.
That's very fair. I think there are many players living in or near White Plains, giving them some cheaper living and proximity to the training center.
