NEW YORK | Ethiad Park (NYC FC Soccer Stadium)

[Crawford]

While I can understand you wanting a Philly team before NYC has two, a Queens team makes a lot more sense than a Philly team.

NYC is more than five times the size of Philly, and the NYC metro is almost four times the size of Philly metro, so, if anything, two NYC teams is too few compared to one Philly team. Now if you compare the recent Latin and European immigration populations in each city (the core market for MLS soccer), NYC probably has something like (I'm guessing) eight times Phily's population.

Given the giant immigrant population from soccer loving populations in Queens and Brooklyn, a Queens soccer stadium would be a huge success. I think it would immediately be among the most valuable franchises and would compete for best MLS attendance.

I do agree that it's important that Philly also get an MLS franchise. It's currently the second largest after the Bay Area without a team, and is much bigger and more sports-crazy than most of the MLS cities (won't name any names).