PRZYBYLKO’S GOAL MAKES UNION A WINNER IN CCL!
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UNION ALUM BRENDEN AARONSON RINGS ONE UP FOR USA VS. JAMAICA!
By Harvey Hoffman and the Associated Press Sergiño Dest scored his first international goal with a spectacular 25-yard shot, Sebastian…
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By Mary Meeks The new MLS schedule has been announced with the 2021 season expected to start on April 16.…
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UNION OPEN 2021 SEASON AT MLS CHAMP COLUMBUS ON APRIL 18!
By John Rosen The Union will begin the 2021 MLS season by traveling to Historic Crew Stadium to take on…
UNION AND MLS SEASON START PUSHED TWO WEEKS TO APRIL 17
By Mary Cunningham The 26th season of Major League Soccer will begin April 17, two weeks later than the league…
UNION FANS REJOICE: MLS CAVES TO PLAYERS SO 2021 IS ON!
By Steve Kelly Major League Soccer and its players agreed last night on a reworked collective bargaining agreement that will…
MLS LOOKING AT LOCKOUT FEB. 4 AFTER $1B LOSS IN 2020!
By Sally Fahey and the Associated Press Major League Soccer has extended its deadline for negotiating adjustments to the existing…
HERE’S UNION’S ONLY SCORING OPPORTUNITY IN 2-0 LOSS: PATHETIC!
The Union won a free kick that produced their first genuine scoring chance of the night, but Kacper Przybylko headed…
UNION FALL TO EARTH, BOUNCED FROM MLS PLAYOFFS BY REVOLUTION!
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No sports has taken the local market by a bigger storm than the Philadelphia Union, the four-year-old member of the Major League Soccer. And no one symbolizes soccer's growth in this market - with Union news, Union blogs and Union rumors seemingly everywhere - better than Philadelphia Union CEO Nick Sakiewicz.
"My high school played games in Philly and always got beat up," he says as he sits in his spacious office with a view of the the Union's home, PPL Park right out his window.
"So I had a pretty good feel for the city even when I was a kid. Plus, my family used to take us down here for trips." Sakiewicz played professionally in both France and Portugal.
After the World Cup in 1994, where he ran marketing for Mastercard and met all of the founding fathers of the new Major League Soccer, Sakiewicz joined the new league at its inception in 1995 as VP of sponsorship sales and relocated to Manhattan. In 1996, the league asked him to take over as president of the league-owned Tampa Bay Mutiny, and he was named MLS executive of the year after three seasons.
So, when he got a feeler about joining a new team in Philly as CEO and a member of the ownership group - along with Jim Nevels, Jay Sugarman, Robert Buccini, David Pollin, William Doran and Paula Mandle - Sakiewicz fairly leaped at the chance. "Philly is a great town and a great sports town," Sakiewicz says. "But it isn't a real international city. Well help with that. We pride ourselves in that."
When he was informed recently that the last professional sports franchise started in this town that lasted more than a couple of years was the Flyers in 1967, he was taken aback, especially considering the way Union news, Union blogs and Union rumors have proliferated. "
Just another element of the challenge.
Now, on the heels of the 2014 World Cup and interest in American soccer sky, Union news, Union blogs and Union rumors have more resonance than ever.