Don Garber
Don Garber
Don Garberhas served as the Commissioner of Major League Soccer since 1999. Garber is also the CEO of Soccer United Marketing and a member of the United States Soccer Federation board of directors. He has been nicknamed "The Don" or "The Soccer Don" by his colleagues and the media...
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We want kids to dream of playing for FC Dallas and being like Eddie, and the only way that happens is if he's playing in our league. Our future is going to have us looking to these special players as the foundations for the sport, and we need to find ways to provide salaries that are competitive with other parts of the world. More important than that, we need them to believe in the league and their role in building the sport.
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Absolutely. Dallas is not a playoff contender. They had one of the worst seasons in the history of our league. They need impact immediately, and they will get that. Dallas needs to have somebody that's going to help them win some games as they get ready for moving into their new complex in 2005.
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We sat down and had some long discussions internally and with Eddie, but we didn't make any counter-offers. Eddie is very committed to MLS, and to FC Dallas and its new stadium.
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We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can succeed in places like Columbus and Salt Lake,
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We're a changing country. The people against us are older and not engaged in the game. Our focus remains expanding the dominance of soccer as the No. 1 sport among Hispanics living in the U.S.
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Pizza Hut Park is clearly becoming a major destination for marquee soccer events in the United States, and we're pleased to host MLS Cup 2006 at one of America's great soccer facilities. The tremendous support by the entire soccer community in North Texas for MLS Cup 2005 makes Pizza Hut Park - one of the premier soccer complexes in the world - the perfect choice.
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I think we've reached a tipping point when we don't have to explain the game to every person who's interested in buying a team.
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I think we've got some interest and I think we've got some momentum but we've got to be sure we do things right. There's no rush to expand this league,
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We hope this program will further encourage the millions of soccer fans in this country to contribute to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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We have always believed that combination of the diversity and the passion of the city's sports fans and the size of the market would lead to success for an MLS team. We've also had great success with the international markets, maybe as much as we've had in any city.
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We never intended for the team's name to offend any member of the Houston community. We listened hard to the fan reaction and believe that the Houston Dynamo name is an exciting, appropriate and locally relevant new team brand.
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While we recognize that much work needs to be done, this is an encouraging first step in the process toward bringing first-class professional soccer to the area.
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It's very important to note that this is a league that's young, that continues to evolve and we make decisions that we think are in the best long-term interest of the league, ... We have added two new owners into this league both who are going to be in great markets and who at one point are going to be playing in soccer specific stadiums.
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Not that our current owners don't, because they certainly do, but he appears to be willing to be much more up front and out front than perhaps our current investors over the last couple of years. I think that's fresh and exciting.