Which comes as secondary if there is no money.
It's LA they have two teams for every league in the United States. And as I'm sure you're aware, the Galaxy don't even play within LA city limits. They play way out in the burbs. The new team is supposedly going to be right in the center of downtown LA.
For nearly all businesses that hope to sustain themselves, marketing is part of operating costs - for a soccer club, without attendance there aren't ticket/concession sales, and without a loyal following there aren't good sponsorship opportunities - this is all achieved by marketing. They can also have as many sponsors as they want, but my point was that slapping names/logos on a jersey in a haphazard way is not compelling to a paying audience and is easily rectified with a competent graphic designer (could be on staff or a dedicated fan) that can organize the sponsors' logos.if they can barely pay their operating costs how can they focus on marketing?
Also the spending power of many of the people living in these countries is small if any at all. So all the marketing in the world won't make a difference. That's why teams do this to get revenue.
I would daresay the situation isn't that much different than the reasons MLS wanted a second team in the NYC metro area. To be quite blunt about it a second team in a city like L.A. is going to be light years more valuable than a team they stick in places like San Antonio, Las Vegas, St Louis etc.
Even on a single highway, those 13 miles could take 6 hours to travel.
Because LA is large enough to support two teams and a potent LA rival to the Galaxy can boost the profile of MLS in LA and nationwide. Kinda weird question out of our forum here...
I actually almost posted that one instead of the one I did. You're totally right that it's more representative but I liked mine because of the tons of dots in such a small area. Which is basically my point. Even with two stadiums to fill, 4o or 50,000 seats, that really shouldn't be a problem for a metropolitan area with either 13 or 18 million people, depending on how you count it. (New York is 23 million for comparison.)
Yup.
