• Parramore is in flux. Orlando’s historically black neighborhood will soon be home to a soccer stadium, and a brand new preschool through eighth grade public school. And that’s just the start.
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• The Citrus Bowl will host the US Women’s National Soccer team – the same team that won the World Cup last month. They’re traveling the nation on their victory tour and will take on the Brazilian national team in a friendly contest. Is Orlando becoming the soccer capital of the south?
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• Orlando City will pay for its own major league soccer Stadium. With $30 million of State funding in limbo during a special legislative session, the Orlando City Soccer club announced they will pay for the entire project themselves. The move will save the city and county millions of dollars.
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• Soccer has been grabbing headlines this week: from news that Orlando is bidding to host the Copa America Tournament next year, to news that the Lion’s star player has an injured calf, to an April Fool’s Day joke that had fans seeing purple.
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• Orlando competing with 24 other cities to host the Copa America soccer tournament next year. Two of Orlando’s biggest competitors are Tampa and Jacksonville, said Central Florida Sports Commission CEO John Bisignano.
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• Orlando is embracing its status as an MLS city in a big way. Fans were thrilled with the Orlando City Lions’ one-to-one tie with New York City Football Club yesterday at the Citrus Bowl. Mayor Buddy Dyer has been working to get state funding for the city’s new soccer stadium. He spoke to 90.7’s Crystal Chavez on the heels of our first MLS game.
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• The Orlando City Lions ended their first game in a thrilling one-to-one tie with fellow expansion team, New York City Football Club. It wasn’t a win for the City but you wouldn’t know that from the pumped up crowds leaving the stadium.
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