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Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:17 pm**

Could be a possible MDIA tournament future site.... From today's USA Today:

$80 million Texas complex to open with MLS match
By Ridge Mahoney, Special for USA TODAY

For more than three decades, professional soccer has tried to find a foothold in the hotbed of Texas football.

Come Saturday, fans and officials and dignitaries will gather in the Dallas suburb of Frisco – ground zero of another hotbed, that of youth soccer – to herald a multi-use complex unlike anything in the world.

Surrounding a 21,193-seat stadium that will host FC Dallas of Major League Soccer as well as high school football will be a vast complex of soccer fields set amidst the lawns and trees of Pizza Hut Park, which is the first facility to meld youth sports and a professional team to such an extent.

"I've certainly never seen or heard of anything like this," says Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, whose Hunt Sports Group spearheaded the project to house FC Dallas, one of its three Major League Soccer teams, along with 17 grass fields as well as another with artificial turf.

The cost of the complex – estimated to be $80 million when all the trimmings are finished – is being shared by those entities. Naming rights were sold to Pizza Hut for 20 years at more than $1 million per year.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/m ... dium_x.htm

Posted: **Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:05 pm**

Wonder if the new MLL Dallas expansion team will play there.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:02 am**

Tarzan wrote:Wonder if the new MLL Dallas expansion team will play there.

The seasons are at the same time. It would be a perfect location though. I'm not sure they want all the different lines on the field that would occur when playing both soccer and lacrosse during the summer.

Posted: **Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:32 pm**

Don't forget the Frisco school district will also use the facility.

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:10 pm**

Dallas and the other cities were picked for MLL expansion because they currently have MLS teams thus the lax team will most likely be playing its games at the freshly constructed soccer pitch.

Posted: **Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:37 pm**

didnt i suggest this idea about 6 months ago? ok maybe 3. i was there too, BTW, and its awesome.

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:17 am**

That would be fantastical to do playoffs there.

Posted: **Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:00 am**

Nice facility-Jessexy props to FCD for helping my Metros into the playoffs. What is that thing at the open end of the stadium supposd to be? Is that an amphitheatre?

Posted: **Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:03 pm**

its a concert stage. they are planning on hosting concerts and events. purely profit things.

Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:41 am**

The entire complex is rather impressive ... if possible it'd be a great venue for USLIA and of course MLL action.

Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:38 pm**

You can all catch a glimpse of the facility this weekend by watching the MLS Cup at 2:30 (central) Sunday afternoon. should be on ABC.

Look for me, ill be in the Stadium Club. Holla