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Manchester City will be the vast majority owner, based on the league's statement, while the Yankees will play a dynamic role in ownership group, with Yankees President Randy Levine playing point for the ballclub.

The Yankees and Manchester City curently have a preexisting commercial commitment through Legends Hospitality, a worldwide entertainment, hospitality and marketing and advertising company, and guy City will play a friendly against other EPL leaders Chelsea FC at Yankee Stadium this coming Saturday.

“We are pleased to be associated with this major move by MLS to increase its presence within the nyc market and improve the window of opportunity for ny football followers to enjoy high-level play in their own city, " stated Hal Steinbrenner, managing basic partner associated with nyc Yankees. "We look forward to the chance to work with Manchester City to generate some thing really special for the football followers of brand new York - also to bringing another terrific staff to the city for several recreations fans to savor."

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In order to begin play in 2015, NYCFC will arrange for an interim venue but will even seek a permanent residence in New York. The club says it will continue the discussions already under way with the City of New York, local residents, community and business leaders, and soccer leagues about a possible new stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park (FMCP) in Queens, while also continuing to look at other potential sites.

“New York City FC has a permanent house inside City when you look at the great practices of New York recreations and world football - a property that really must be a sports, commercial and civic success, ” Soriano said. “But in considering any arena web site, we are going to pay attention first. It’s this that we always carried out in Manchester and what we will do in New York. Only in this way, can the Club really represent the town whoever name it will probably carry.”

Manchester City have experienced connections to nyc consistently now. Its "City Soccer in the Community, " a grassroots childhood football program, happens to be up and running in New York since 2010 and is based at PS 72 (Lexington Academy) in East Harlem, which now boasts a rooftop industry financed by Manchester City. City Soccer in the neighborhood "provides high quality football instruction and programming to thousands of kids in 20 NYC general public schools annually, " according to the club, who're expected to increase this program's get to for the five boroughs.

Through numerous neighborhood programs, Manchester City have actually funded the building of soccer facilities for youth in nyc, Chicago, la, Miami and Washington, plus across the world.

But it is on the field in nyc in which NYCFC have their particular biggest effect. The arrival of some other club inside ny establishes MLS' second neighborhood derby – after the la SuperClasico between the LA Galaxy and Chivas United States Of America – and considering the fact that this is New York, the rivalry between NYCFC and the Red Bulls is expected to be a heated one.

“Soccer is among the world’s most interesting and preferred activities, plus it should really be played on world’s biggest stage – in nyc, ” nyc Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stated in a declaration. “New Yorkers will be the biggest recreations followers in the world, and they'll welcome an important League Soccer team using full-throated and devoted help they've been famous for.”