The city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are discussing a proposal to renovate the city's historic American Legion Memorial Stadium in partnership with Marcus Smith, president, and CEO of Speedway Motorsports, to transform it into the home venue for an MLS expansion team, according to media reports.
U.S. women's national team striker Alex Morgan is set to join French outfit Olympique Lyonnais for the opening half of 2017, with the NWSL club announcing Tuesday that its star attacker would miss the beginning of Orlando's 2016-17 season.
The Montreal Impact added some offensive reinforcements on Monday, when they announced that they have acquired 21-year-old Argentine attacking midfielder Lucas Ontivero on loan from Turkish club Galatasaray.
Barca, the colloquial name for Fútbol Club Barcelona or F.C. Barcelona, is known and respected throughout the world as one of its premier teams, and is one of only three never to have been relegated from the Spanish La Liga. It is one of the most famous football teams in Europe, second in Spain only to Real Madrid. In fact, according to the official statistics it was the most successful team worldwide between the years of 1991 and 2015.
Old Trafford is the second largest stadium in England and home to Manchester United FC. The stadium has a capacity of 75,811 seats. In the first decade of the 20th century Manchester United played its matches at a 50,000-stadium at Bank Street, when then president Davies began planning for a new stadium with double that capacity. A site was chosen near Trafford Park industrial estate, and architect Archibald Leitch appointed to design the stadium.