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FC Cincinnati welcomed into MLS
Publish Date: May 29, 2018
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MLS commissioner Don Garber formally announced FC Cincinnati as the 26th club in MLS. Joining him on the stage were majority owner Carl Linder III, President and General Manager Jeff Berding and Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley.
Cincinnati will join the MLS in 2019 playing in Nippert Stadium on the campus of The University of Cincinnati. Their new 21,000 seat stadium in the West End is scheduled to be ready by the 2021 season.
The conference FC Cincinnati will play in is still up in the air, with the announcement expected in the coming months.
MLS expansion announcement
was for Nashville SC on December 20, 2017. They are currently scheduled to begin play in 2020 in a 27,500 seat soccer-specific stadium.
The announcement was held at Rhinegeist Brewery, in Over the Rhine, about a mile from the new stadium site. The event kicked off with members of the different supporter groups singing and holding scarfs before taking their position on either side of the stage. Taylor Twellman and Adrian Healey, the MLS commentators for ESPN, kicked the event off and introduced speakers on the stage.
Berding stepped to the microphone stating, “This day was always the vision for Carl Linder and me, from the day when we began on August the 12th of 2015.” He then complimented Mayor Cranley saying, “You should be very proud of this guy,” after saying how he sold Cincinnati to the MLS and was a huge part of getting this bid.
When Garber got to the microphone the volume in the room rose because everyone knew what was about to come. He started off by complimenting the city and new stadium deal saying, “You shocked the world” and “This deal is unprecedented,” in how it is fully funded by the team and can be the pillar of the neighborhood.