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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Tigres indoor, a fair franchise?

Well, i want to let out some toughts that i've been rounding up in my head for the past few days.

Regarding the recent entrance of a Tigres indoor soccer franchise in the MISL (Major Indoor Soccer League), let me tell you that i find this a bit unusual, suspicious if you want...

First of all, months ago, the major soccer team Tigres, made an offer to buy the Monterrey Fury pro indoor soccer franchise. Fury's owner said "NO"... As the days went through, the league's commisioner, disaffiliated the team, citing "constant administrative and economical failures", whatever that means... as a response, the Fury's owner appealed the decision and got no response whatsoever from the league...

A couple of days later, the MISL commisioner announces that they don't want to leave Monterrey without a team, as it is a great fan base and a great city, so, as he says, he went on the look for potential investors who wanted to buy a whole new franchise... and guess who he found... Monterrey Tigres, a team that plays in the major soccer first division, a VERY popular team.

So, as it went down, the Tigres signed a contract to manage the resulting franchise from the recent disafiliation, that means, that the player contract from the now extinct Monterrey Fury, belong to the league... so Tigres will cease control of it, with the option to actually buying a franchise and staying in the league.

The newly formed team will go by the name of Tigres Indoor, to differentiate it of the actual Tigres, that play regular soccer...

What I think of all this, is that the Tigres organization, after getting the offer to acquire Monterrey Fury rejected, went behind the back and contacted directly the MISL league's commisioner, and practicly asked them to get them a franchise... as the commisioner realized the actual investment and organizational power the Tigres had, decided to give them a franchise, as they were a better organization all-around, would attract a larger fan base (including the actual soccer team fans) and therefore bring more money to the league's pockets. So, the league was convinced Tigres deserved a franchise, and monterrey was no place for two MISL teams, they simply disafiliated the Fury, as i cited above...

So, Tigres got their indoor franchise, the league got a better organization running the Monterrey franchise, and by the way... bigger bags of cash...

I'm not saying that this is good or bad, it's surely good to Monterrey's indoor soccer culture and to the fans, but this wasn't necesarily the best way this could have happened. I feel Tigres indoor was born in a dirty fashion... not to be reminded proudly...

My toughts on the issue...

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