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Portland is a soccer town and has all the essentials needed to make this a fantastic franchise.  We have a soccer legacy in organizations such as UP womans team, we have Adidas North American HQ.  Adidas is synonomous with soccer.  We have a vibrant down town where people actually live and we have a rail infrastructure that can feed into a ball park. We have Nike which wants to increase its soccer presence globally and we have a dedicated loyal fan base.  The most important thing about sports however is the spectacle of the game, thats what drives the bus and to do it right you must have a GRASS field.  You cannot play a finesse and controlled beautiful game on artificial turf because the ball rolls too fast and bounces too much and it becomes a different game.  Make it a grass field and they will come.  An intimate park that allows you to get close to the sidelines , have a pint and watch top level players on real grass and you have a combo that cannot fail.

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