Comments on: My Soccer Club: Now We Americans Can Buy a Team for $50 apiece

By: matt

matt — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:14:30 +0000

MORE LIKE MYSILENCETOMCLUBUSA AMIRITE?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:09:41 +0000

“Dave”, my information is based on emails with the founder. All the founder has to do is answer simple questions, I’m all in favour of this in principle. But over two months, he has not done so.

“Dave”, be careful about accusing someone of a “smear campaign”; it’s weird that a commenter called “John” used the same words — “sad” and “smear” — over at my site as well tonight, isn’t it?

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:52:19 +0000

Dave, if you want to provide me with info on the legal status of the club and the 501(c)(3) application, I’ll be happy to post the organization’s side also.

I think Tom and I are both more interested in getting correct information out than in pursuing an agenda. If you want to give me more details, I’ll be happy to add them to the post as well.

By: Dave Sheiner

Dave Sheiner — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:31:59 +0000

I’m a new member of My Soccer Club USA, Tom Dunmore is on some kind of personal sabotage mission here, his information is based on a couple jealous posters asking crazy questions on a forum, thats it. Maybe he wish he thought of it first? its pretty sad that a man spends all his time trying to bad mouth and organization. I’ve been a member over a month now and the folks behind the effort definitely know what they’re doing and have some major announcements coming up to the public. So Tom, please grow up and move on, you’ve got a very interesting site there, i’d consider focusing some more time on it and less on a smear campaign based on forum postings.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:29:30 +0000

Thanks, Tom. Valid points. It never occurred to me to question what kind of structure the organization would have. Blinded by the words “NY Times,” I suppose. I’ve updated the post with your link.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:18:16 +0000

I've talked to the founder of mysoccerclub and written an article about it here on Pitch Invasion. As you can see, sadly I have pretty serious reservations about the professionalism of this venture.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:34:05 +0000

can’t they let us in on a league in a country where people care…you know…so we’d make money?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:32:40 +0000

That’s funny. The team I work for Queen City FC is in the NPSL, we pretty much put in all our money to get the team running.