🇬🇧 BRIT Soccer Fan Reacts To MLS STADIUMS 2021 - I'm Impressed!
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- 🇬🇧 BRIT Soccer Fan Reacts To MLS STADIUMS 2021!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m Going to React To MLS STADIUMS 2021!
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its nice to see a European take interest in our league and not be condescending about it, thank you Kabir
I was really surprised at how high the technical level is now compared to a decade ago
@@kabirconsiders MLS has doubled in size in 10 years. From like 14 teams to almost 30
Stadium game in Europe compared to USA is F-. With your creaky ass, leaking roof stadiums.
@@achillesglenn1380 I never said I like the format, most fans here don't
The stadiums are beautiful, the fan passion is there, the level of play grows higher and higher, average annual attendance outstrips both the NBA and, in diverse cities like Atlanta, the NFL (!), and, if the USMNT pull off a few more wins like the CONCACAF final, television viewership will surely rise. But the owners maintain an iron grip, salary caps make it nearly impossible to keep our best players at home when in their primes... Sooner or later, the owners must step back, "float the currency" of the MLS Brand, and allow the league to compete for the very best talent from around the world, so thar our best and brightest can play at home and still have the chance to face the best competition. Oh, and all of these draws have got to go. Bring back the shootout! Enough.😊
Providence Park was built in 1926 and has quite a history but was not used for professional soccer until 1975, and then the stadium was still primarily a baseball venue. It was not soccer specific until 2009. Interesting fact, Pele played his final professional match at Providence Park.
Friendly reminder to check out the derby between Portland and Seattle :) Here is a better but longer video th-cam.com/video/SFBUNbJLHro/w-d-xo.html
A somewhat shorter and more recent video th-cam.com/video/USUFGnNHUTs/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the links and the info mate! It’s cool to see rivalries starting to build in the MLS. They’re a big part of what grows the fan base
Da da Da da Da daaaaa, TIMBERRRRRRRR!!! 2015 Champions.
@@kabirconsiders The Timbers-Sounders rivalry is one of the best in US sports. It's up there with the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.
Its cool where the stadium is just located . Up the sidewalk kind of thing
The actual quality of talent in MLS is hit or miss (frankly that's part of its charm) but the stadium game is easily a A+
plus the more players that start making overseas will see more investment from the american side and hopefully increase the playing level across the league. but you're right, one day we can see a world class scoprion kick then the next day we see an entire defense turn into highschool freshmen 😂😂 its so funny
@@jdrummerdd that's exactly it. Where else in the world can you see a guy named like Hunter Chadwick III or something whose previous teams was like Creighton make the only bicycle kick of his life against some other dude whose logged minutes with Tottenham
Only thing I don't like is the turf fields and Yankee stadium. I don't mind the NFL stadiums, just the turf is trash for soccer.
Very few team in MLS play on turf anymore
@@Aaron-io8vw only 5 teams don't play on grass, and 1 that doesn't play on a standard size field. Hopefully every team will be playing on grass someday.
It's crazy how in MLS' short history almost all the teams went from playing in NFL stadiums to getting their own new stadiums. The sport has risen quickly as the younger generations fell in love fast with the game.
Absolutely, the game has grown so rapidly in the US, it’s great to see
@@kabirconsiders A lot of us fell in love with the game because of the video game FIFA. When I was young we loved that game but couldn't really watch games on tv. Slowly we got the big EPL games then Champions League and now we can literally watch every game from any league. When I started watching Thierry Henry was my guy and the reason I became a gooner. I still have a bunch of his jerseys.
I think at one point both the Quakes and Sporting Kansas City (back when they were the Wizards) played at minor league baseball stadiums. Not even a generation later, MLS has world class stadiums on par with anyone. It's amazing.
Interesting fact : the BBVA stadium architect Christopher lee was the same designer of the Emirates Stadium.
No way! And welcome mate, COYG!!!
Dooku was an architect?
christopher lee? dracula himself?
no wonder the dynamo stadium is gorgeous
@@Nunsdadumstve it's quite the sight to see, I've gone to a few games with my dad and brother a couple times. It's a shame our win record is not so gorgeous 😔
Earthquakes Stadium is now Paypal Park, they also have the longest stadium bar, probably because the airport is directly behind it.
Apparently you can see planes landing from the stadium!
@@kabirconsiders I live about 5 minutes away from PayPal Park (can see the airport from where I am.) Can confirm that you can see planes landing from the park. It's a beautiful stadium.
Go Earthquakes
@@kabirconsiders As one of the Ultras, can confirm.
Fun fact - Atlanta won MLS Cup in 2018, packing 73,019 into Mercedes Benz Stadium.
That was 5,000 more fans than attended the Super Bowl (in the same stadium) three months later.
That’s crazy, the soccer fanbase in the us is definitely growing
Nice to see how much you like Minnesota's home field- Allianz field
This is the first guy from Europe to give us a honest feedback on our stadiums and not start hating on US soccer 👍💯 you earn yourself a subscriber
As a Texan, I am sorry I have to correct you.. It's "Clint Dempsey"
My bad bro 😂
@@kabirconsiders 😄 He's our iconic tough guy. He grew up playing in fields with Latino football kids. Not quite a Wayne Rooney has massive attitude. You must do a video just on him. Please.
Toronto FC stadium is amazing when you are there watching a game.
I need to catch a game there for sure
@Kabir Considers As a Fan of The Philadelphia Union Our Stadium is Nice Too Went To a Game Once Which Was My First Union Soccer Game!
During a normal season, Atlanta United routinely packs Mercedes-Benz stadium for regular season home games. It actually got more people for the MLS Cup final between Atlanta and Portland than the NFL got for the Super Bowl there a few months later. The Atlanta fans are amazing.
But NFL is better
Because the stadium holds more people. The NFL is far more popular. MLS is a joke
@@chalkywhitelll8448 lol mls is not a joke. It’s actually growing beautifully
Come on over to Minnesota and we'll go to Allianz, hit the Beer Hall, and watch the Loons. And you're right about the US National team's potential. We also host the World Cup in 2026 when most of the players will start to be hitting their primes too.
2026 is looking like a perfect storm for you guys to do some serious damage! And thanks for the invite mate, hopefully I’ll be able to take you up on it soon! 🍻
I want to hit a game in Minnesota one day. I have been to Crew old stadium, Nashville , Miami temp stadium , Stade Saputo and obviously from my avatar the Mercedes-Benz stadium here in ATL. Good time had at all , sometimes too much of a good time lol.
Go Loons!
Good video mate, enjoyed it. Huge football fan here from America. Been watching and playing since 1970 and was thrilled when we got our MLS team here in Atlanta. And of course winning the Cup in our second year only made it better. Our stadium is amazing, and very cool when the roof is open (I can send pics if you like). If you want a MLS team to follow, hard to argue with picking Atlanta. Top class club from the top down, though we did have an off year on the pitch last season. And we have a UK fan club that already boasts over 500 members! Cheers.
Thanks mate ☺️ is awesome seeing the beautiful game really starting to pick up steam in America, I knew it was only a a matter of time
There’s a lot of American players from MLS playing first team minutes for big clubs in Bundesliga, Ligue 1, LaLiga, Serie A. With the few in EPL. Talent pool is big
Yep, we are starting to see more and more US players at the highest level. The USA will be a top 8 national side within 5 years I think
@@kabirconsiders the biggest problem for the US in this department is just soccer is much more privatized than other sports. At least that's the stigma. Compared to baseball, football, or basketball u need a lot more money for camps, equipment, etc. But I will say whatever sport America wants to dominate they will lol. We've seen that in majority of Olympic events lol
@@kabirconsiders our late 2000s era young players failed us hard leading to us having to use very old players in the 2014 world cup and failing to make it in 2018
@@ettibbet5493 After an embarrassment somewhere around the turn of the century, the US govt actually put some funding into soccer, that program has started to reap its rewards, the US govt has recently stopped funding it as they believe the MLS can do it on its own now. Weston McKennie (Juve), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea), Tyler Adams (RB Leipzig), Bryan Reynolds (AS Roma), Brendan Aaronson (RB Salzburg), Zack Steffen (Manchester City) are all some examples of that program, some went though MLS, others did not.
@@thomasthomasthomas296 yes, I just remember back in 2006ish how they were saying players like Freddy Adu were our future and he just dropped off
Finally reacting to MLS! I know it isn't up to par with European leagues but it is a blast to watch.
Most of the 60k plus capacity stadiums are also home to NFL teams although Atlanta United averages ~50k per match and the Seattle Sounders ~40k per match in normal years.
Also the left back at Bayern is Alphonso Davies, Canadian national team player from the Vancouver Whitecaps.
The standard of player in North America is definitely rising, five years and you’ll be a top 8 nation i think
@@kabirconsiders We have several players at big European clubs...Christian Pulisic at Chelsea, Weston McKennie at Juventus, Sergio Dest at Barcelona, & Gio Reyna at Borussia Dortmund. We have 7 players in the Bundesliga, 5 in the Premier League, 2 in La Liga, 1 in Serie A, & 1 in Ligue 1. All together, we have 50 players in Europe, most on clubs in the top 2 levels in various countries...mostly in Germany, England, Belgium & the Netherlands.
Gotta make it out to Columbus mate, college town, defending MLS Champs, getting a new stadium plus one of the best College Football teams in all of NCAA. The biggest rivalry is Ohio State vs Michigan, if you can find a breakdown video of that rivalry, you have to react to it. Over 110,000 fans attend each event even if it's just a meaningless season game, but it's never meaningless to those two schools.
110k people! That’s a huge crowd. Sounds like I need to put Columbus on my must visit list 😎
@@kabirconsiders Arguably the biggest rivalry in sports, although it has been a bit lopsided in Ohio States favor over the last decade lol, but people still go crazy for the big game. Also, the food scene in Columbus is underrated and undefeated
@@LeeAkrish I agree about Ohio state
@@kabirconsiders When AC Milan agreed to play a team of MLS All-Stars in 2005, they were pissed that they were going to play in the MLS stadium mentioned in this video seating not quite 20,000 vs playing in Ohio Stadium that at the time could seat 105,000.
@@LeeAkrish I am a child of academia. Lived in Lafayette, Madison, and Lansing. Michigan hasn't been good since the 90s. Michigan football is a bigger joke than Indiana basketball.
Earthquakes Stadium is unique in that it has the longest outdoor bar in the world. The stadium is also across the street from the San Jose airport so you get to see planes constantly landing and taking off during games.
I’d love to visit it one day
At first I loved the design but after going to many games throughout the years I hate it, but hey that's our ownership for you.
@@kabirconsiders and those jets make up their crowd noise lol. Go SOUNDERS!!!
All MLS Stadiums 2021 are awesome. Kabir, thanks for the tour.
The U.S. has some awesome stadiums! 🏟
I had to laugh at the beginning of your video. You mentioned Hershey, Pennsylvania native...Christian Pulisic. I live next to Hershey in a town of 4800 peeps, Hummelstown. We have a weekly paper that regularly runs articles on the native sons play in Europe. Two small towns with a fantastic Junior and Travel team system. Some fantastic High School and College level players have come from our area. I recently retired from a major employer in the area. You may have heard of them, The Hershey Chocolate Company. Football (Soccer) and Lacrosse are growing by leaps and bounds in our area. Nice to see the change. Hershey Entertainment Co. has a large stadium (approx. 8,000) that hosts the Pennsylvania State High School Soccer Championships. Cool old school venue to see a high school match.
Working for Hershey must have came with a lot of certain benefits right? 🍫🤤
@@kabirconsiders Cheap chocolate. All you can eat while at work. First taste of new products. 40 years of smelling chocolate and I can't enjoy the smell or the taste any longer.
It´s so great reading soccer is rapidly gaining popularity in NA! Sounds like it´s turning into one of the favorite sports in your specific area, that´s awesome man!
As a German soccer and NFL fan, how do you explain that meteoric rise of the beautiful game in the US and the simultaneous decline in NFL viewership? Is it true that less and less children play tackle football due to its health concerns, given that it´s proven to cause severe brain damage, most notably CTE?
@@andys9178 I think it has more to do with youth programs and the early start. Children of 4 and 5 years of age can get involved in instructional leagues. Of course these programs resemble a herd of cats chasing a ball of yarn!
High school players get involved officiating the youth leagues. American football has formative leagues but as kids get older, high schools are really the only avenue for participation.
Sports like soccer, swimming, baseball and others have huge club participation. I was an assistant coach for an age group swim team for nearly 25 years. Ages 4 to 19. On a good year, the team often fielded over 200 swimmers. USA swimming is a national age group swim program with opportunities far beyond normal age group teams.
If a high school lacks funding for a soccer program...Many areas offer club and travel programs rivaling anything school can provide.
@@SwimCoach8
Thanks for filling me in with your detailed reply!
Sounds quite European. In Germany kids usually start playing soccer at age 4 or 5 as well, called "Bambinis" (U7; diminutive form of Bambi, the Disney deer). From there on, they are elevated to the next youth team every two years, going from F-Jugend ("F-youth", U8/U9) up to A-Jugend (U18/19) and finally the seniors.
Learning about that club system is great, since I haven´t been aware of that! I´ve only known that high school/collegiate sports and draft system which we don´t have in Europe at all.
Being on such a steep rise, I guess USMNT will be very competitive within the next two or three WCs, maybe in 2026 already. That home WC should create an extra boost growing the sport!
Given further rise in interest, are MLS stadiums (especially the newer and fully roofed ones) expandable? Hard to find any information.
I know Allianz Field is expandable to approx. 25k, but how about FCC´s TQL or the new STL stadium for instance?
So, fun fact, the grass in Austin FC stadium DOES glow when the team scores a goal. The entire stadium turns bright green and it is SICK. The team is definitely having growing pains in their first year, but the fans are diehard already.
Great video! I love how the MLS is building up and becoming more entrenched in American sports. I went to the very first Columbus Crew game back in 1996 and have watched them progress from cavernous Ohio Stadium, to the first ever soccer specific stadium in the country, to the amazing new Crew Stadium. As a side note, I live literally next door to the stadium and have been watching them build it daily for the past year and a half. I can't wait to see a game there when it opens next month!
Yeah watching MLS grow in stature and reputation abroad is great to see
11:21 philly unions stadium is the only mls stadium i’ve been to and it is beautiful and fans were great, great view over good stadium
I need to visit ASAP!
@@kabirconsiders get a spot in the supporters section! The River End! Sons of Ben throw a party for 90+
@@kabirconsiders I have to agree! I'm a bit biased as a Union Season ticket holder....but honestly, I sit with an amazing view of the river\bridge. And on a warm summer night you get the breeze from the river, nothing like it :D
West End Stadium in Cincinnati just opened last week. They played their first home match against Miami. The ground looks amazing on TV. It's like watching a European match.
I need to catch a game there at one point
I am partial as every other person is about their team and stadium, but when Exploria Stadium is rocking, it is second to none. Very proud to have that jewel in my city.
I need to catch a game there at some point!
If you ever come out to see some MLS games you gotta stop by Kansas City. It has incredible food and Children's Mercy Park is one of the coolest stadiums I have ever been in. The atmosphere is like nowhere else. This was a neat video!
Not to mention the US National team is playing all three of their gold cup group stage games there this year!
I definitely need to do a Kansas tour
@@kabirconsiders The weird part is how I think that is the only top tier professional sports team stadium actually in Kansas, the rest of the Kansas City teams play in Kansas City, Missouri
Oh man thank you for going down this path! You have to do a reaction for us guys in USA if not for yourself on Euro 2021 Stadiums. Same guy does the original video. I had no idea the Soccer stadiums in Europe looked this way.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the kind words bro ☺️
My apologies in advance. It's Clint Dempsey, and he played for Fulham and Spurs in England... and also played for New England and Seattle in MLS. U.S. football fan here. Nice channel... the host is very good, and good content. Cheers!
Something told me I screwed his name up 😅
@@kabirconsiders LOL. No worries. It's U.S. soccer. Not exactly household names like in the Premiere League.
Ohhh dang ! I went to my first Austin fc game last week. The who stadium was glowing for real ! Check out the highlights if you don't believe me.
Not only does the Mercedes Benz stadium (Atlanta United) hold 71k, we’ve actually hit that number several times for games! Our normal games have around 40k fans which is more than most teams in MLS.
40k fans is impressive! There are teams in the premier league that don’t get that many people
Dont they have drapes for the top decks during normal games to make the stadium feel smaller?
Love your knowledge. Many old school players mentioned. Thanks for the follow.
Thanks mate ☺️
A few things about Allianz field you may have missed from the brief description: the nickname cloud city is also a pointed reference at the NFL team's stadium that look like a Jawa Sandcrawler from Star Wars (search US Bank Stadium Sandcrawler and you'll see what I mean). The seating is also quite striking with Loons along the side an in the 35-degree inclined supporter section. The manual scoreboard and analog clock (above the 4,100 square foot, 96-tap brew hall) is a nod to the team's history before going to MLS.
Just because of the Star Wars reference Allianz field is officially my favourite MLS stadium
Fun Fact for ATL stadium is that it doubles for American Football, which is what it was primarily built for. Eye roll for MLS teams playing in non-dedicated facilities
Hopefully they get their own stadium soon!
Atlanta stadium is designed specifically to accommodate both American Football and soccer. The dimensions are so that it adapt to soccer. The same owner owns both the MLS team and the NFL team which is why the color scheme for both teams are similar. Strangely enough I only been there for MLS games even though I follow American Football more closely.
Glad that I subbed to your channel. Very good content, and it’s not the common anti-US commentary that I frequently see. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words mate :)
paypal park (formerly known as earthquakes stadium) was built near san jose airport, and if you stand with the ultras, you can see airplanes landing across the road in the background, the mountain ranges in the back. its really beautiful. it also has the largest outdoor bar in north america, or LOBINA for short
Your can watch some footie and take in some aviation at the same time! ✈️⚽️
The reason that Mercedes-Benz stadium is big is because it is the home stadium of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons
Ohhh I see, is not used exclusively for MLS games
@@kabirconsiders It's not, but both the Falcons and Atlanta United draw huge crowds. They are probably one of the few MLS clubs that are actually justified in having a large stadium.
@@waterboy99troop Atlanta has packed that stadium with 72, 500+ fans.
@@burdrchitect1680 I know. Did you have trouble reading what I wrote?
@@waterboy99troop Was just mentioning it. That's all. ✌🏾♥ 😊.
I have watched the Galaxy since they played at the Rose Bowl Stadium. Great memories with Cobi Jones, Mauricio Cienfuegos, El Matador Luis Hernandez, El Pescadito... etc!
To see recognition from established Soccer/Football cultures is amazing!
I’d say in the last 3 years the MLS profile overseas has really grown
Exploria Stadium is also one of the first MLS stadiums built with a dedicated large scale safe-standing section for the Supporters Groups, dubbed "The Wall" which was inspired by Borussia Dortmund;ss Yellow Wall. Also aside from the safe standing section most of the stadium has mostly purple and gold seats, except for 49 rainbow colored seats, which were put in as a memorial for the 49 victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting that occurred in 2016.
One of the greatest moments at Exploria Stadium so far was in 2019 during the US Open Cup Quarterfinals. Orlando City was playing NYCFC and the match went to Penalties tied 1-1, NYC got to pick the end and naturally they picked the end opposite of The Wall which was empty because of the seating set up for the Cup match. However, Orlando City supporters in The Wall decided they weren't gonna let NYCFC kick in front of no one so they started sprinting ALL THE WAY across the stadium concourse to the other end, eventually security guards gave in and let the fans into the second behind the goal where the penalties were being taken. Orlando City ended up winning the shootout 6-5 and went to their first ever US Open Cup semifinals. That moment has since become known as "The Running of The Wall".
The running of the wall.. thats awesome
Then they got they ass beat by Atlanta and Father wasn't even there.
One of the first American players to do well over here and in Europe was back in then was Jovan Kirovski. He was signed as a teenager by Man Utd, but work permit problems meant UTD sent him out on loan to German club Borrusia Dortmund. He eventually joining permanently . He was playing at the club when they won the Champions league, but missed out on the squad for the game. Later he was technical director at LA Galaxy
I am a life-long fan of the beautiful game. In 1977, my father took me to Kansas City to watch the NY Cosmos with Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia, Franz Beckenbauer, and Carlos Alberto. They played a friendly match against Corinthians, I believe. I was hooked from that moment on.
MLS are definitely on the rise. Not only the quality of play, which is pretty damn good, but the financial health of the league is very strong. This is reflected in the cost of admission for new clubs. Twenty years ago, the cost to establish a club was about $20,000,000. The latest (30th) club will pay a fee of $350,000,000. Even USL Championship clubs pay enormous fees in order to get started ~ don't hold me to it, but it's in neighborhood of $20,000,000. That's for *second division* football... in *AMERICA* .
The next big hurdle will be the implementation of promotion/relegation. I personally think that it is inevitable. There are too many ownership groups in cities with high levels of interest and support who want a chance to play in the top league. Cities like Memphis, Sacramento, Oklahoma City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tampa, and San Antonio all host big league teams in other sports. All have second division clubs with a lot of money behind them. They won't sit still for long. Eventually they're going to want a chance to play their way in. Furthermore, until we adopt a model which the world will take seriously, we won't attract more than a handful of world class foreign players.
For business stability reasons, MLS were established as a closed league with ownership groups investing on that basis. It's also a model familiar to American fans in general. Ergo, in a vacuum, it made sense. Without a century or more of club football tradition, certain concessions to run afoul of tradition were necessary. Owners needed some form of protection in order to help the prospects of financial viability.
We've crossed the Rubicon here in America, football-wise. MLS are viable, and match-for-match, damned entertaining. (For the record, the skill and creativity on the attack are very, very good - but the defending and goalkeeping are lackluster). American academies do the opposite of Mexican academies - they encourage the most talented players to take wing and go up against the best in Europe. As a result, we are seeing Pulisic, McKinnon, Dest, Sargent, Reyna, Weah, Yedlin, Brooks, etc... Meanwhile, very few talented Mexican players do well in the best leagues. When Cruz Azul demands a $25 million fee for a $9 million player, it's clear they want to keep the talent at home.
In brief, I think you're right. With a gun to my head, I say the US team is through to the knockout stages in 2022, and potentially the quarterfinals depending on the draw. In 2026, I think they're a legit threat to get to the semis.
I have been dreaming of this since a little 6 year old boy watched an aging Pelé in 1977. Long time coming.
100% on the rise. It was inevitable in my opinion. As soon as a country with your resources and talent decides to take something seriously, it usually finds success.
@@kabirconsiders
Declare independence with no standing army against the greatest military power on earth? Check.
Build a transcontinental railroad across 2000 miles of unsettled land with the country in the midst of an incredibly destructive civil war? Check.
Bomb an enemy capital on the other side of the world 4 months after the destruction of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor? Check.
Put men on the moon and bring them safely home? Check.
Find 11 world class footballers out of a population of 330 million, then terrorize the game's traditional powers? Child's play.
Whatever one may say about America and Americans...
when we put our minds to a thing we often deliver in spectacular fashion. We are, collectively, that bright kid in school... you know the one. He struggles because he's inattentive and lazy and doesn't do the daily work. Then, just as disaster and failure are imminent, he pulls himself together and produces full marks. He leaves the teachers and his fellow students frustrated. But his roguish charm often wins over those who want to dislike him, but can't quite manage to do so in spite of themselves.
MLS is definitely on the rise! my home state of North Carolina's first MLS team starts play next MLS season.
Great to see Americans really embracing the sport
So I’m a supporter of Toronto FC who plays out of BMO Field. I love my club, and BMO is our home, but you can obviously see that is was built piecemeal over its 15 year life. Originally there were no seats in the north end and a beer garden was located there. Then it was torn out for more seating a few years later. Years after that, the seats were torn out and moved back so the Toronto Argonauts CFL team could ground share with TFC. We also had only one roof over the West Stands. Then around 2016 an upper deck was added to the East Stands. Lastly, more roofing was added to the South and East Stands. And apparently next year more seating will be added to the South End.
BMO has basically been in a constant state of construction and demolition since its first few years. While expansion is obviously a good thing because it means more fans can attend live matches, the result is a stadium with no distinct look or esthetic to it. It literally looks like a stadium that was originally a small bare-bones venue that over the years, the owners have just tried to cram in as much seats as they could and enlarge the playing surface to accommodate another sport all to make more money outta it. I’m not knocking it as far as business decisions go, but it’s a stadium with no unifying architectural themes and when you walk around you definitely see some unfinished elements.
That said, however, just a few hundred yards away is the Toronto Island Airport. It’s pretty cool to have planes taking off and landing in the background as you watch a game.
Would you rather the owners demolished it and started from scratch with a great design in place?
@@kabirconsiders Absolutely. The team and fans deserve a world-class stadium.
Also, I don't know if you caught on or not, but most MLS teams share a stadium with either a college or NFL team. That's the reason Atlanta United stadium is so big because it's technically home to the falcons.
So we have a ton of stadiums that are for our american football, we have one of the biggest stadiums in michigan, it holds like 109k and i’m pretty sure an el classico happened there, some of the mls stadiums are multi use, we even have some teams that don’t use bigger stadiums that they have access to
109k 😳 that’s enormous!
Another interesting fact about Earthquakes Stadium (now PayPal Park) is that it has the largest outdoor bar in North America, aka LOBINA.
Im from the UK, visited BC place in Vancouver Canada when I went over to visit my girlfriends family. I was soo surprised.The stadium was beautiful right in the middle of Vancouver and the entire stadium was sold out for the game I went to vs Seattle. You wouldn't think there is that many fans in 1 Canadian city. Thought them lot were all into hockey, they had more fans in one place than Man City has ever had 🤣
City’s ten supporters must have been devastated after what happened on Saturday 😂
Football (or as we call it, soccer) is the largest grassroots sport here in Canada, even more so than hockey, as the cost of entry is lower. We're probably more vocal about our love of hockey, but a lot of us also love soccer, especially among immigrants to Canada.
Seattle and Vancouver are part of the Cascadia rivalry which also includes Portland. Definitely one of the most heated rivalries in North America football, dating back to the original NASL days (1970s).
Love that Allianz Field is one of your favorites! I'm a season ticket holder for Minnesota United. If you're ever in the area, would love to show you around the place. Just come in the summer. In the winter, you...will...freeze. Which reminds me: look up the coldest game in USMNT history. It was played just this year at Allianz Field between USA and Honduras. It was 2F (-17C) with a -12F (-24C) wind chill factor. I wasn't brave enough to go but it was a full stadium.
us Minnesotans can gladly watch the game in the cold
Dope Video! love the diversity in the stuff you react to!
Thanks mate ☺️🍻
Atlanta's stadium would actually be the 5th largest stadium in the UK, just below the principality stadium in Cardiff and just above Murryfeild in Scotland. Great video bro
The Nissan stadium in Nashville hosted the international championship cup game for Manchester City and Tottenham. It broke the all time capacity record for a soccer game and many other sports in the state and in the US. That game was the sole reason Nashville got an expansion team for the MLS. I drove six hours to watch that game. I'm a Spurs fan. I got to see some of city's best players before they retired in 2016.
I must say they aren’t the most popular, but I throughly enjoy watching Europeans, Brit’s especially, reacting to the MLS and enjoying it. I noticed you haven’t really done any MLS content in about a year, I really wish you’d start up again our season just started last weekend, but I thank you very much for making an effort to look at stuff in our league rather than just crapping on it like almost every European, and even many americans and Mexicans, do.
I've been to a number of Atlanta United games at the Mercedes Benz stadium. It's a fantastic venue. Big, loud, and the halo screen near the retractable roof is outstanding. What's also great is that the team owner, Arthur Blank, made having a family friendly atmosphere a top priority. Hot dogs sell for $2 and a bottomless refillable soda is $4, which is unheard-of cheap for an American stadium.
This food prices seem really reasonable!
It is also the home of the Atlanta falcons
I've been to a match at Rio Tinto, being that I live fairly local. It's only about 10 minutes from its nearest light rail station so on match day the train is full of fans. It's 13 years old so it's not the newest stadium on this list, but it's absolutely stunning all lit up and quite well designed. RSL has only won one MLS Cup (in 2009) but we do still tend to have a quality team.
I’d love to visit it one day! It’s great to see how much the game has grown in America over the last ten years, in another ten I think you’ll be closing in on the top leagues
Even though the capacity says 71,000, Atlanta United season average is about 60,000. They close the top tier most games to have a closeness feel to game but they open it to full capacity on big matches. Even though it says 71,000 capacity, they easily bypass that when they open the top tier. They had over 73,000 during MLS Cup in 2018.
73k!! That’s more than most big European teams get 😳
I love your videos. :)
Particularly your MLS ones!
I would recommend you the Canadian Classique (Montréal vs Toronto).
Best derby in MLS in my opinion
Thanks so much mate :) I’ll put it on my list!
Kansas City's stadium sponsor isn't a charity per se. Children's Mercy is actually the local children's hospital and one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country. Going hand-in-hand with that, their shirt sponsor is their own charity, The Victory Project which deals a lot with children with cancer and disabilities.
Holly on field has some of the best game day atmosphere and just to bring a little slice of home to you after every single win in the stadium, The entire stadium sings wonderwall by Oasis. Why? It's a long story but it's a fun one
The level of play has improved quite a bit. There is a lot of competition in MLS, so it’s worth checking it out
Absolutely, the technical level has improved rapidly over the last ten years
Providence Park is a beautiful stadium. They're damn right to say it has a lot of character. It's the same character I reckon that's apparent in alot of UK cricket stadiums, which is probably why I like it so much without having been there.
Both Seattle and Atlanta make full use of playing in NFL stadiums. In 2019 Atlanta averaged 52,509 fans over 17 games, and Seattle averaged 40,246. The interior photo shown for BC Place (Vancouver) was from the 2015 Women's World Cup, for MLS games the upper section of closed and they have a canopy above the lower section to help keep the crowd noise from being lost.
Using the canopy to retain crowd noise is clever, really helps build an atmosphere
@@kabirconsiders It really does. I'm a season ticket holder for the Whitecaps, and it's amazing how much the canopy makes you forget there's an upper bowl in the stadium.
Went to Seattle Sounders game a couple of months ago. Not quite as loud as when the Seahawks play there but it was fun and rowdy!
The Whitecaps stadium is the BC Lions stadium in the CFL. It's nice I've been to it.
The new FC Cincinnati stadium had its first game last week (Gonzalo Higuain had a brace) and it was a great match with incredible atmosphere for 6,000 fans
Glad to hear fans are getting back in stadiums after year we’ve all had
@@kabirconsiders Yeah, weirdly we are also starting to loosen mask restrictions for vaccinated people (something that is quite hard to keep track of). I've been to a baseball game already since we started reopening things. I've never been to a soccer game, but I think I should experience it in a different environment first, not in the US or Canada.
BC Place was built in 1983. It serves as the primary home of the Vancouver Whitecaps ⚽ and the BC Lions of the CFL🇨🇦🏈.
It underwent a massive $500 Million renovation in 2010-11 that saw it's original air supported fabric dome replaced with a retractable roof, based on the one at Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt.
I’d love to visit it one day!
Mercedes is only so big because its shared with a US football franchise, but its an amazing venue all the same. Would love to see a game there.
I see, yeah it’s an absolute beauty of a stadium the architect did a fantastic job
Columbus Crew stadium hosts the Sonic Temple festival, back in 2017 when it was Rock on the Range, the estimated attendance final night was around 135,000. So many people were outside just listening
The Atlanta stadium is primarily an NFL stadium which is why it's 71K seating. The largest Atl United crowd was 40K I believe.
Oh I see, so it’s not used exclusively for MLS games
Nope. the largest Crowd was 72,500+, I was there. I have been to a game yet this season, but we pack the house most times. Especially when it's fully opened.
As an avid atl United fan and someone who has attended a few games I can tell you that despite being able to hold 3x more than any other stadiums we pay around 5x more for tickets then other teams. Depending on the game 30th row club seats cost twice as much as on the field seats for other teams
Great stuff and cool to see!
Thanks mate ☺️
The Providence Park images don't do it justice. Those images are from the renovation. That has since been completed, and raised the capacity considerably. With the addition and the renovations, the stadium looks absolutely amazing. Portland also gets amazing fan support.
Timbers and Thorns 4 life!
In US sports jargon, a stadium has a "roof" if it's fully enclosed, a "canopy" if it has a shade covering some or all of the stands but the field of play is open to the sky.
The distinctive grey canopy of the Minnesota Twins' home baseball stadium, Target Field, houses the vast majority of the stadium's lights, making it the first (and to date only) stadium in MLB without traditional light poles or lattices; the only lights that are not located in the canopy are mounted above the main scoreboard.
Thanks for explaining this to me! The Twins stadium does look quite unique
@@kabirconsiders Apropos to this video, Allianz Field (which is a weirdly glowing presence on my commute to St. Paul) is distinguished outside of architectural terms by the fans of MN United FC singing Oasis' international 90s megahit "Wonderwall" after every home win.
The stadium in Nashville that flooded was flooded by a 1000 year flood. That's essentially a flood with such low chances of happening, it only happens every 1000 years, on average. That flood was one of the most expensive natural disasters in US history, causing $2.3 billion worth of damage and killing 21 people.
The flood was caused by a stalled weather front that sat over top of Nashville for two days. It dumped 345mm of rain in 48 hours and broke many regional rainfall records. Many of the damns within the city and in the general area were almost over run, and emergency flood gates had to opened, letting more water into the already flooded Cumberland River. It flooded a few interstates (dual carriage ways), and there's newscast video showing a house floating down one of the flooded interstates.
If you ever come to Nashville ( a popular tourist destination) and take a downtown tour, they all discuss the flood and its effects on the city.
Needless to say, it's highly unlikely that the stadium will ever experience something like that again.
A thousand year old flood?! Thats crazy, I need to watch a video on that. RIP to those 23 😢
The new stadium was planned well, it is one block from the Cincinnati streetcar 2 drop off points. Cincinnati TQL Stadium is having a good economic affect on this city. New businesses, new homes, and a new hotel is being planned to be built across from the stadium. The fans here truly love this team through it's ups and downs since it first started playing in the MLS in 2019.
Is amazing watching the sport grow and the impact it’s having on local businesses
great video man! enjoyed it a lot.
you ever make your way to philadephia you need to drive into suburu park off the comm barry bridge. on game day nothing like it
Thanks mate ☺️ sounds like an awesome place to be, I’ll definitely check it out if I’m ever in the area
5:30 I still remember where I was when I watched Snow Clasico! I felt cold for the players! It was insane.
I need to put a vid of that game on my list!
@@kabirconsiders I watched that match. The team captains met with the referee & the linesmen/ref's assistants before the match and decided to go ahead & play. It was crazy, when the players were at one end of the pitch, the grounds crew were on the other end clearing the line markings off with shovels. The U.S. won 1-0. Costa Rica protested the game to both CONCACAF & FIFA, but both denied the protest since Costa Rica agreed to play the match under the conditions. It's a bit of gamesmanship by the U.S. Soccer Federation during World Cup qualifying, as they often schedule WCQ matches against Mexico & our Central American neighbors in places like Colorado or our more northern States during cold weather. In return when the USMNT goes to those countries, they have a large group of their fans camp outside the hotel where the USMNT is staying to party & play loud music in order that get little sleep. When the USMNT plays in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador, their fans hurl all sorts of things out of the stands at our players...coins, bottles, rocks, dirty diapers, & batteries.
I am working from memory, so the details may be off. The US does like to put our warm weather friends into cold environments when we can, but this outcome owed as much to random luck as to gamesmanship. The game was played in March, and the temperature the day before was a springlike 60s (F). The blizzard hit about gametime, and even during the afternoon the temperatures were comfortable. The blizzard could not have been foreseen when the game was scheduled, so Costa Rica's argument that Denver should never have been chosen for a WCQ was a non-starter. Also, conditions deteriorated throughout the match. So at the time the captains met, they couldn't have known how problematic the snow would become. It made entertaining TV though.
Highlights: th-cam.com/video/C9xuaQDkmL8/w-d-xo.html
Bonus: A game where Portland Timbers played in the coldest MLS game ever in the same stadium in Colorado -> th-cam.com/video/vfY3ehWoJ1M/w-d-xo.html
A stadium is currently being constructed in St. Louis, Missouri for the new MLS team scheduled to begin play in 2023 (St. Louis City SC). STLCSC's stadium is just a few blocks from Busch Stadium (home of the St. Louis Cardinals) The Saputo family isn't the donor for CF Montreal's stadium, they OWN the team & the stadium. New York City FC does indeed play their home games in Yankee Stadium (The team is jointly owned by the owners of the New York Yankees & the owners of Manchester City FC), although there are plans to build a stadium for them in the future. Austin FC's stadium wasn't completed in time for the beginning of the 2021 season, so they are playing their first several games on the road until O2 Stadium opens in June.
It’s awesome to see so many new teams being created in the MLS, helps accelerate growth of the sport
Regarding Vancouver and snow, it is part of the Pacific NW "Ecotopia" climate where there is seldom snow, but lots of rain due to the warm water currents from the Equator. Basically, Vancouver/Victoria would be the two cities in Canada that least needs to worry about snow...usually.
Dest in Barcelona, Mckennie in Juventus, Reyna in Dortmund a lot more are scattered around Europe now which is great. 2022 looks promising for the USMNT
Definitely won’t be long until the USA is a top 8 nation
So I would definitely recommend you watch FC Cincinnati's Stadium (TQL stadium) light show. It's pretty impressive. But a lot of these stadiums deserve their own showcase.
I’ll check it out!
FYI, Mexico is part of North America too... everything north of Panama is North America. Canada likes to think it's only them and the U.S.
I didn’t know that! Thanks for letting me know
The Colorado Rapids stadium is unreal
Super modern
@@kabirconsiders The roof design is made to evoke the Rocky Mountains.
Yeah, I’m a fan of the roof. It would be interesting to see it go all around the stadium. Would look pretty awesome, I think.
Our College football stadiums are much larger, I believe the US HAS 8 THAT IS CLOSE TO OR OVER 100K compacity
Allianz Field is home to my club MNUFC. It's a fantastic place to catch a match. Back to full capacity of fans June 23rd!
I need to catch a game there someday!
@@kabirconsiders If you ever find yourself in this part of the planet look me up and we can catch a match
SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, insanely expensive and opened in 2020 for the NFL, will be used for soccer both at the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics. (capacity over 100K)
It's not official yet for the 2026 World Cup. I'm hoping it is but the Rose Bowl is still being considered too because of it's history. I hate the Rose Bowl because of the traffic getting in and out of there and it needs alot of work done to be able to host such a huge event again so that's why I really hope SoFi gets the World Cup instead.
@@fernie_is_a_red they would be dumb not to use SOFI, it would just be sitting there 😭😂
The pitch is going to be tight at sofi.
@@jdrummerdd the only issue would be the artificial turf. I'm pretty sure Kroenke won't miss this huge opportunity and will lay down some natural grass for this game.
In case the video you watched didn’t make it clear, Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New England, & Seattle all were designed as NFL stadiums first, which is why their capacity is 3-4 times that of the other fields shown in the video.
I see... that makes sense
Great reacts video thank you
Thanks mate ☺️
I remember reading something about how the Earthquakes' stadium has this ridiculously huge bar. I must visit there someday.
Me too 🍻
Us been building new stadiums every years for that last 30 years 😆
Constant construction 🏗 📈
@@kabirconsiders the Atlanta stadium before Benz as the Georgia Dome, built in 92 for the Atlanta Falcons and for the 96 Olympics they tore that down for the current one which cost 2Billion bucks
Thanks for your optimism on America's World Cup future...wish I shared it.
you guys will definitely do well
Yes, NYCFC do indeed play most of their home games at Yankee Stadium. I think they also play some games at Red Bull Arena because the MLS and MLB seasons run at the same time. The two stadiums are rather close geographically
And NYCFC has had home matches at the home of baseball's New York Mets, Citi Field in Queens... that will be the case in 2022 for six matches, while Yankee Stadium, the Pigeons' normal home, has 10, and Red Bull Arena gets one match.
I know you mentioned it but you DEFINITELY need to check out the US vs Costa Rica blizzard game. It was insane and a legendary match in US history
It’s on my list!
If you're going to come catch a MLS game in the states, try to time it to catch Seattle Sounders v Portland Timbers. It's hard to get seats in Portland for those games (Providence Park is the USA's Stamford Bridge - old, small and closed in by urban environments preventing expansion), but Lumen field seats almost 70k, and tickets are usually available even on game day. The SSFC v PTFC rivalry goes back to the mid-1970s, making it ancient in terms of US soccer (football) rivalries. Both supporters groups pull out all stops for TIFO action in the "Cascadia derby" games. Good entertainment value for neutrals.
Kabir, I watched Real Madrid play against Manchester United at Michigan Stadium a.k.a. The Big House in Ann Arbor back in 2014 and it set a record at the time of a little bit over 109,000 folks in the crowd.
109K! Thats a ton of people. The atmosphere must have been electric
Cincinnati's TQL Stadium has been completed and it is gorgeous!
4:30 thats Lake Michigan, which is about a 5 minute walk from my place.
Awesome having that beauty so close to your home!
The video does a disservice to Providence Park. The east side expansion is very cool and reminiscent of La Bombonera.
I need to see what it looks like now
Atlanta United is Le creme de la creme the Atmosphere is out of this World
Providence Park boasts having the best atmosphere in MLS, and one of the best in all of North America. Our Supporters Group is called the Timbers Army. I highly recommend looking up how we do match day over here. I promise you haven't seen anything like it.
I’ll try to find a vid!
Thanks for the video. Inter Miami FC is building an incredible stadium ($1 billion when including development of the surrounding area) that I think opens in 2022. It will be one of the best in the world when complete. St. Louis is joining the league in a year of two and will have a new stadium.
I’m looking forward to seeing what the Miami stadium will look like!