Cincinnati: USA's next soccer heartland?

Coached by iconic United States captain John Harkes, FC Cincinnati has been winning headlines for big and enthusiastic crowds and attacking football. Will they join MLS soon?
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[@BFordLancer]

FCC FOR LIFE!

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[@TheColerain11]

What video is that?

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[@XxSwiftCrossxX]

MLS really really needs to have promotion and relegation. You can't have a major league without it. If MLS had promotion and relegation you would really get a lot more passion in the fans. It also adds more fans to come to the games that will affect either promotion or relegation.

[@ElCap1van]

Dude Sorry USA Isn't Rich with clubs all the money is in Europe

[@champwarren3195]

+Navi Blue it needs to be done. As a dynamo fan we were once a powerhouse and now we are last by a long shot, but who cares right? It doesn't matter what position we get as long as the club is profitable. We sell all our best players and there are almost no repercussions because we can't get relegated, so there is little incentive to improve. The league has a bunch of teams and there's the NASL too, and although geographically it could be difficult, it needs to happen if the league is going to be taken seriously

[@joshuali7726]

But all other major sports leagues in the US (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) do fine without relegation and the idea of promotion/relegation is foreign to American sports.

[@champwarren3195]

+Joshua Li Despite being American I hardly watch other sports, so I'm not especially familiar with how poor teams are affected. What I do know, however, is that right now the system is not working. Perhaps this is more an issue of salary caps limiting the entry of quality foreign players into the league and the college system interfering with the development of homegrown talent. We need some kind of change, and I don't think that because relegation and promotion are foreign ideas that they therefore cannot or should not be implemented. I see no issue with our league working like basically every other league in the world does

[@SuperHamrick94]

I agree. I was talking about it with a friend on Sunday, and USL needs to be the league under MLS. someone needs to start a petition and get signatures about it

[@phanueloppong4294]

I'm from Cincinnati and I'm a teen trying to become a professional soccer player wish me luck

[@danny0049]

stay in school dude

[@mariocespedes1695]

fantastic, soccer is not just for a career is a lifestyle, it keeps your body in a great shape for the rest of your life, I am almost 70 years old I am still playing. Love it. Make your dreams reality young kid. It is worth to try it.

[@kevingarcia8922]

Play everyday, practice new tricks. Play outside whether it's raining, sunny, no matter the weather. Start uploading your videos on social media and make it a lifestyle! Only way you'll be making it far in life bud. Good luck to you. Much support from Mexico.

[@nelson776]

good luck stay positive you can do it

[@sandra9785]

i've seen only parts of your matches here on youtube videos-but i have to tell you 😘👏👍🤗good job, cool crowds and well Performance. Go on FC Cincinnati! !! Best greetings from a German Fussball Fan

[@TheColerain11]

So glad we have finally got a team to get behind in the city. The Cincy Saints tried but they tried to do too much too fast. FC Cincinnati is doing it right and I'm so glad to have a local team to support.

[@peterbaumgartner4878]

They just beat Columbus Crew in a 1-0 match for the lamar hunt open cup. They deserve MLS

[@tiannajames6328]

Pete Baumgartner ik I was there, it was awesome

[@peterbaumgartner4878]

Tianna James I streamed it. couldn't get tickets but man I wish I splurged and was there.

[@peterbaumgartner4878]

Tianna James and now they just beat Chicago

[@PJBower]

Pete Baumgartner I was there

[@peterbaumgartner4878]

Christian Eriksen I wish I was. I had to work but I watched it during work lol

[@NytmareTV]

Cincinnati is the next US soccer heartland because it is where our lord and saviour Harambe sacrificed his life for all of us.

[@martin42478]

NytmareJ word

[@pedroportillo1585]

Dicks out for Harambe!!!!!

[@juangamadgaf]

has more fans than Man City

[@itsblitzzgaming7084]

What?

[@zsoltszabo22]

Juan Gama no they dont

[@brendenrisser402]

This Harambe crap needs to stop. I live in Cincinnati, I can't wait till the next season starts , it's such a fun environment

[@ProMrLecoq01]

Brenden Risser Cincinnati is a shitty town tho

[@epb111]

why

[@ProMrLecoq01]

Joel Dunaway lol, its more like a big town

[@tiannajames6328]

ProMrLecoq01 what makes you think that??

[@ProMrLecoq01]

its all the different parts, suburbs combined that make it a big city. it isnt an amazingly big city or anything

[@noc2rn]

Balls out for H-a-r-a-m-b-e

[@BarcelonaBeast]

is Harambae there watching above us

[@monkeynator1234]

Harambe fc

[@w84q]

You know he is.

[@harambe1128]

Yes

[@ShynyMagikarp]

I'm so happy my city has decided that this is a club that is striving for MLS. I would be so disappointed if Berding and Harkes were content with USL. I think they can take us there, with us on their backs. Onwards and upwards! I love as Harkes put it, "humble and hungry".

[@jazzx251]

How? Without promotion and relegation, you could be in the USL forever - with its 5 substitutes per game, lol! The expansion of the MLS has now come to the point where, with certain financial protections for losing teams, it's time to introduce promotion and relegation. As I watched bottom of the league Houston Dynamo get disinterestingly mauled by David Villa tonight - their season gone, nothing to fight for - how much better would that game be if they had to avoid "the drop"? They still had enough points available to get out of the bottom 3 places. They would have fought for every ball instead of being like David Villa's traffic cone training practice. It's time. Expand the league to 40 teams (there's already enough well supported teams across America and Canada to do this) - split them into two divisions of 20 (East and West 10 teams each for each of the two divisions). Automatically exchange the winning teams in both East and West (of MLS 2) for the bottom teams in the top division. And have a two-legged series between the second best (of the lower division) and second worst (in MLS) to see who will be in MLS next season. That could be a good starting point.

[@itsblitzzgaming7084]

We will move to MLS In the 2017 season

[@ShynyMagikarp]

ItsBlitzz Gaming It's not happening that soon.

[@ShynyMagikarp]

They can financially move, and John Harkes has stated his desire to do so. Promotion and relegation is not obviously a thing yet, and I wish it was, but your idea of it is really convoluted and unnecessarily complex.*****

[@itsblitzzgaming7084]

Lilz We get more fans then some MLS Games

[@MrSharky334]

As soccer expands here in the US and new teams like FC Cincinnati make bids for the MLS, the need for promotion and relegation becomes more and more obvious. We cannot have a first tier with 30+ teams. Cap the first tier at 20 and started filling up the second division. Work with the NASL and USL to form the lower divisions. It would drastically improve US domestic soccer.

[@hawkinsstern5356]

why cant there be a first tier with 30 plus teams?

[@hugoebenfeldt6615]

Because if everyone shall play all other teams (both away and at home) it would mean 58-game seasons which is crazy long.

[@onlinewithdyl3020]

Argentina's 1st tier league has 30 teams and they still have promotion and relegation. Why can't MLS do that then?

[@benzskyeshxc96]

long season mate. International duty the league should stop and rest for 2weeks but mls not, and their best player joined international game

[@my0p1n10nst1nks]

There are more than one ways to skin a cat

[@DesertHash]

Harambe should be the mascot

[@brendenrisser402]

NO

[@sporcus369]

hell yes

[@harambe1128]

Already am

[@sml2k186]

Shut the hell up

[@gdm9937]

Harambe would be proud

[@pragoolal9465]

Vall

[@whatever6938]

GDM g

[@harambe1128]

I am, I love you all

[@robertlind1511]

Cincinnati is not a baseball or football town anymore it is Soccer. Cincinnati Reds don't draw flies anymore. Glad Cincinnati got a MLS Team they are a big soccer town.

[@UnDiscoverSkillz]

Ayyyy, my boys in blue and orange.

[@augustoviana3464]

Its presure to watch the team cincinaty it"s like happiness😊

[@thomaskendell8146]

Good luck FCC 💙🧡 All fans can appreciate passionate fans

[@walter.vasquez]

They made it to MLS!!!

[@dillingersam588]

The Beautiful Game 😎

[@gian9218]

Goals out for Harambe

[@devan98]

goals

[@Muddiman1]

Who'da thought 18 months later Fc Cincy would be a MLS team

[@hldtrm]

They should move to MLS

[@joeykelly0157]

hldtrm they are they were in the final 4 but Nashville was chosen for the 1st out of two spots for 2020 and it looks like Cincinnati will take the second spot over Detroit or Sacramento

[@nayibarce1696]

The Mojo Card Box they will be in 2019

[@NevPlays]

hi im from the future in 2019, fc cincinnati currently are in the MLS and just won 2-1 to montreal

[@SheenaRea]

Congrats Cincinnati!!!!!!!

[@aidanbehrens6518]

I was at a summer intensive for musical theater at the university where they play their home games. It's shocking to see this on FIFA TV because we were able to just sit down to look at the players warming up before the game. So great to see these guys growing.

[@mohamedrb4316]

Mi Somali hero Mohamed ,for fc Cincinnati .see u in de MLS

[@augustoviana3464]

The team it"s excelent very competitive make the victory happened

[@lennybuckingham3078]

Love the ambition hope it all works out for you

[@usarugbyleagueunionfan]

This is awesome. The sport is blowing up here. It's like heaven. I think Nashville and Charlotte will get teams. That will create a great regional rivalry with Atlanta. This country is in for a real treat.

[@cisko6278]

Its pretty cool that USL teams are hosting big team such as Crystal Palace. A couple weeks back Reno 1868 FC another USL league team hosted Atlas quarterfinalist from the Mexican League which is incredible considering this is their first year as a expansion team in the USL.

[@closethedoornow7538]

3:24 lol how they show somebody hoofing the ball route one at this point 😂

[@augustoviana3464]

Congrats for cincinati but that come of many years before now cincinaty recepts the glory

[@redbloodprince328]

holy smokes fc cicinatti the next best mls team

[@chamberlainachilihu3035]

Is true, they had what we called cathedral not just fans...

[@CalebBlock]

Colorado misses you, Omar!

[@EmpereurNapoleonex]

RIP John Harkes

[@seth_acero4706]

And now they’re in the MLS

[@760xboxlover]

I live 1 hour away Cincinnati sorry I’m sticking with the crew

[@migueldelaguira8421]

LETS CALL IT FOOTBALL ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽AND THE OTHER LETS CALL IT THROW BALL 🏈

[@loui30]

good for them. btw nice stadium

[@chamberlainachilihu3035]

Cicinati team is huger than sports..

[@cincycats11]

GO FC!

[@itslife1399]

it's a shame that the new stadium will only have 26,000. Should have had 28 or 30 at least. But im also not sure what the average attendance is tho. so maybe 26k is a safe bet?

[@abhis5255]

just like cin is for MLS there is kerala blasters in ISL with over 50000 attendance per match

[@eccentral3]

It's no doubt that FC Cincinnati looked good this season and demonstrated that they can compete with MLS clubs as far as fan bases are concerned. But, it's like the owner of semi-pro club Detroit FC owner said, the American soccer system isn't play up, it's pay up to move up. American football, basketball, and baseball was originated in US and followed their own structure. MLS keeps saying they want to be on level with the world. The global soccer world utilizes relegation. How do you explain Atlanta getting an invite to MLS the same year Atlanta's NASL club folded?

[@jameslewis6617]

Well done. Good luck.

[@MrJosedaluz]

Pride is what they have to show. And by the loads.

[@picutreplane]

Rename it to Harambe FC

[@KyleHurd]

Juan Pantoja it's been a year and this still isn't funny :) just thought you should know

[@agn855]

_"Cincinnati loves successfull teams"_ …and that’s the main issue with that US franchise system. Fan's should be connected to their team bc that team represents the city and its people, not the owner and his/her artificial merchandise machine. You’ll become a fan of a soccer team once you support it even if loosing games - like Wrexham.

[@alejandro.s4666]

SRFC will have been like that too if they had a bigger stadium

[@timothysmith4330]

Ian L rip

[@enzomaidana5369]

I think everyone pretty much agreed on harambe, whatever that is. so yes, go harambe !

[@JeffreyB1983]

If FC Cincinnati moves to a stadium in Newport Kentucky... does that make them KFC Cincinnati? Maybe Yum! Brands could be their stadium sponsor.

[@kevingarcia8922]

Jeffrey M KFC would make bank with the ads 😂

[@chamberlainachilihu3035]

The whole world whatch tbis club with their culture as the grestest ever..

[@andregunts5292]

Omar Cummings 🇯🇲

[@joeykelly0157]

People saying it’s called football clearly don’t know enough about America or the fact that just because we speak English doesn’t mean we use the same terms as you for our sports or a lot of other things in the USA we call it soccer not football mainly because we have our own football American football and generally the most popular form of football is called that and the other forms of football got different names btw football isn’t just 1 type of sport it’s a generalization of multiple sports

[@michaelwebb4711]

FIFA

[@Gabriel-yw7yz]

Miguel R No

[@tyavalos]

We're St. Louis FC, Hey We're St. Louis FC, We're St. Louis FC, Who Are You?

[@tyavalos]

:)

[@andreisverysus3109]

Their stadium should be named harambe’s arena

[@zman9315]

Harambe FC!!!

[@williamp9137]

Harambe FC

[@cincinnatikid5247]

went to a game....MITCH SAID NO!! FCC is the best MLS team to me...

[@aa-r-ronmartin8781]

Cincinnati kid We're not in the MLS yet.

[@funnyarabhalalman194]

0:15 I think harambe did that

[@chamberlainachilihu3035]

To many folks, no way they gona loose championship. Common think about it..

[@willschutte3688]

THATS MY CITY

[@MrFernando3081]

San Diego

[@Rayan-bj8wn]

Make their mascot harambe

[@JdDiehl]

Why did they fire Harkes?

[@koushikbarua9036]

Do ya'll have a youth system

[@kevinbacktoprelimslee1253]

Football*

[@joshuali7726]

its called soccer here cuz we already had american football which is called that way cuz its a foot long (30ish cm)

[@roaches23]

yet the club is FC Cincinnati (Football Club Cincinnati) see how stupid that sounds

[@DraakvanhetZuide]

Joshua Li You mean handegg.

[@joeykelly0157]

It’s called soccer in the USA

[@1969JohnnyM]

With the sports growth in America its only time before the US will join the elite footballing nations of the football world and now that the sport is taking off in China, football although already by far the biggest team sport in the world really is now the greatest team sport in the world that is truly global. Its great the sport is really genuinely growing again in America after the 50 odd years it had in the wilderness after the Great Depression. The history of the sport is far more ingrained in American history than most people realize. Before the Great Depression football was a huge sport in America but it failed due to a combination of the recession, too many leagues, the ego's and bickering of team owners and league officials ands lastly because the teams could not rid themselves of their association with whichever ethnic group and area they came from. For example a team derived from say Scottish, Irish, Italian or German immigrants based in a community of that community could not gain new fans whilst they held onto their ethnic ties even though the areas these teams came from were changing and becoming more diverse. No sport has the community behind it nor is any other sport so open to everyone, size is no barrier, all you need is supreme skill, endurance, great cardio and fitness is all that's needed, you don't need to be a freak 7foot tall or be the size of a dumper truck.

[@edited163]

Josu ..

[@tylermogus2202]

Anyone know the name of the intro music?

[@andrewkling9530]

Why did John Harkes leave?

[@younggiio]

do it for Harambe #salute

[@iikingii6071]

FOOTBALL

[@chrisstacy6651]

SOCCER!

[@felixhurteau2630]

The Cincinnati Harambe FC

[@RyanSpringer1984]

Come down and check out the Tampa Bay Rowdies. #MLS2StPete

[@mvp3100]

They should name the team Harambe FC

[@mvp3100]

To play respect to the legend

[@jcquinx98]

Is that basically the old U.S away shirt but with orange replacing red?

[@allardfreichmann3733]

For soccer one only needs a ball and kick it. What a waste of money. Better spend money on health care for everybody.

[@gyges3755]

Yeah, but why’d you have to name it “Futbol” Club Cincinnati? It isn’t a Spanish team, is it?

[@augustoviana3464]

Look for youngers for consolud all

[@sml2k186]

So many normies aboit harambe.REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@almanaamir674]

who's here because of bflordancer48

[@JeffreyB1983]

Hamarabae got relegated

[@MarkMegaMuncher]

Who came here from BFordLanc... TheOdds1out: No stop it!!!

[@kojo24s11]

Who's here from bford like if u are cause of him

[@andrewkling9530]

Who?

[@saturn3739]

Harambe.

[@zi613]

hi

[@w84q]

The City of Cincinnati is in fiscal turmoil and the taxpayers are going to be asked for yet another stadium.

[@Therubyplays]

who came from bdford

[@KyleHurd]

I'll say this, the ONLY reason that men's soccer isn't ranked #1 in the world is because our young men have been playing American football! The case for that is, our GIRLS play soccer from day 1 and focus on that because they can't play football and they're ranked #1. But this is changing, our young men are starting to play and in 10-15 years, US men's soccer will be a force to be reckoned with.

[@RollOnToVictory]

Also our girls play Soccer into college, which for the women and the US, act as free acadamies. But it's such an entirely different type of college than the men. It's a college where the best coaches in the game train you up and every college in the country has a team, unlike the men.

[@jamesoconnor0804]

FC CINCNNATI IN THE SEMI FINALS! RED BULLS ARE NEXT!

[@thehamstercreo6890]

who came here from bfordlancer48

[@ElCap1van]

h

[@alfie7223]

I think this is great but don't say your catching up with the rest of the world when you call it soccer

[@ugithdahanayaka5616]

Soccer? Said by FIFA... Incredible... It's Football FIFA not soccer...

[@ugithdahanayaka5616]

Alejandro Ruiz Yeah but football is football not soccer

[@johnglue1744]

Actually it is called soccer and was called soccer on the 1966 World Cup programs as well so soccer is an acceptable name.

[@ugithdahanayaka5616]

But fifas name isn't federation of international soccer associations... its federation of international football federation

[@johnglue1744]

Ugith Dahanayaka Obviously not but soccer is an acceptable term.

[@ugithdahanayaka5616]

John Glue Yeah it is acceptable but from where I come from and in most of the rest of the world football is more commonly used term...but I think FIFA tv is just trying to adapt to the situation here because it's about a club in America, and Americans used the term soccer... so yeah soccer is acceptable but football is the real term that describes the game 100%... so it's more acceptable...

[@seyorock4604]

Its called Football i shouldn't be the one telling you that

[@joshuali7726]

its called soccer here cuz we already had american football which is called that way cuz its a foot long (30ish cm)

[@studzilla]

That's not why we call it soccer. It's the English's fault. It was a slang term for the sport at the time in England and they taught us the term and we started calling it that ever since.

[@joeykelly0157]

Yeah like all the other replies it’s called soccer in the USA where Cincinnati Ohio is so they used the correct term for the country the city of Cincinnati is in duh

[@beakerman007]

Cincinnati as soccer heartland is a joke. Be happy that it is there but why does every new city think they are the best.

[@joeykelly0157]

beakerman007 maybe because Cincinnati has crushed so many attendance records and are already compared to MLS teams and they’re only about to start there 3rd season they have done things that other teams haven’t

[@mikeisthegoat9905]

Joey Kelly 01 they haven’t broke Atlanta records though, have they?

[@XSuperStudMuffinX]

MikeIsTheGOAT This was before Atlanta broke OUR records bud. Educate yourself.

[@kevingarcia8922]

MikeIsTheGOAT look at the stadium Atlanta is playing in. If FCC had that stadium pretty sure it'll be pack as well.