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US Soccer Hall of Fame Shuts Down
Topic Started: Sep 4 2009, 05:39 PM (372 Views)
Yogi
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I've never been there and Oneonta, New York where it is located is more than a bit out of the way, but nevertheless the idea that the National Soccer Hall of Fame is closing is abit sad.

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/66/united-s...e-to-shut-doors

Accoridng to this article only 17,000 visitors a year attended the hall. Another victim of the economy. Apparently it will now be closed to the public and only open on special occasions.
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I've been to the Hall several times. It's well done and surrounded by youth fields that attract several summertime tournaments.

However, this closing has been in the works for some time. The Hall has never done a very good job fund-raising and has had numerous leadership changes. When US Soccer stepped in about two years ago to oversee management, the rumors started flying about relocating to Chicago or the Home Depot Center. I think that's now even more likely to happen.
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That's a shame. It's on my list of places I wanted to visit. I was going to try to hit Cooperstown and Oneonta in the same day. I was in Syracuse last year and I guess I should have tried to do it then, had I known.

I just read a really nice interview with Colin Jose which got me thinking about the role he's played in the history of the game in North America. I better get to the Canadian hall before it closes too.

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hobbes was that interview online? I'd like to read what Colin Jose has to say.

Did the US Soccer Hall of Fame ever try tying in any promotions with the baseball HoF? Or did the baseball group look at them like why would we need to tie our popular hall with yours?

Moving the exhibits to some place more easily accessible than Oneonta, New York would I think be a wise decision.
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Martin,Sep 6 2009
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hobbes was that interview online?  I'd like to read what Colin Jose has to say.

I guess I should have clarified, Jose was primarily talking about Canada, but reading this made me think about how valuable he's been over the years. Apparently he's an incredibly nice man to boot.

http://www.rednationonline.ca/colin_jose_o...9_feature.shtml

http://www.rednationonline.ca/history_of_c...9_feature.shtml

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Interesting that you should be discussing this as in England there is a proposal to move the National Football Museum from isolated Preston to the more accessible Manchester,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ire/8243530.stm

In addition to accessability issues, manchester is able to give the museum, which has free entrance, more money than Preston can. But expect a fight from Preston as the museum which attracts 100,000 visitors a year is one of the few attractions in Preston, dare I say the only one, and they won't want to lose it.

The way I see it the museum becomes the winner if it gets caught in a bidding war betwen two cities for it's services but making it more easily accessible to the public is something which I think should be welcomed.
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The should move it to the New Dynamo Stadium...oh wait they haven't build it for us yet....
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They've got a really quite unbelievable collection of memorabilia at the National Football Museum at Preston, including shirts and the ball from the first ever international and a huge number of similar items of significance from all over the world leading right up to the present day. I'd loved going round there and from a selfish point of view it would obviously be nice for me if it moved to Manchester, especially as museums in Britain are free to enter, so it's the type of place I'd just wander into on a whim. Admittedly it's a very particular type of whim ("hmm, I fancy looking at the ball from the 1930 World Cup Final"!) but one that I reckon would attract a lot of people, and thus make the location more logical than Preston where, let's be honest, you'd have to go out of your way to visit.

I can see both sides of the argument though, as Preston's Deepdale ground is the oldest football stadium in the world, and so is a pretty evocative place to have the museum. But so many people visit Manchester each year it makes sense for it to be there. Not least the legions of foreign football fans who come either to support their teams against United (or even City once every blue moon - pun intended) or just to watch United play. I'm sure they'd visit the museum.

I know I'd be interested in the US one, but the average visitor to America doesn't get to Oneonta, just as the average visitor to the UK doesnt get to Preston.
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It is official the US Soccer hall of fame is shutting down:

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=a...ov=ap&type=lgns

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The U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is shutting down its building.

The Hall announced Sept. 22 that it was closing except on days of special events, and on Wednesday the Hall said it will seek to transfer its 62-acre campus to the Otsego County Development Corporation, which will immediately start managing the property. The transfer must be approved by state agencies and the state Supreme Court.

“The National Soccer Hall of Fame is saddened to be closing our doors in Oneonta, a city and region that has showed great support for both the museum and the sport long before we opened here,” Hall president Jonathan Ullman said. “Ultimately, we need to move forward in a manner that maximizes our resources and provides the greatest possible access by the public.”

The Hall opened in 1979 and has been in its current building since 1999. It will require that soccer programs be continued at the current complex but will allow the building and grounds to be used for other purposes.

Exhibitions will be distributed to several locations around the nation, and archives will be stored by Eurosport, a Hall sponsor, in Hillsborough, N.C. Annual elections will continue.

“As we transition into a new and more sustainable operating model, we will continue to promote and celebrate the Hall of Famers and their accomplishments,” U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said.


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The Hall opened in 1979 and has been in its current building since 1999. It will require that soccer programs be continued at the current complex but will allow the building and grounds to be used for other purposes.

Exhibitions will be distributed to several locations around the nation, and archives will be stored by Eurosport, a Hall sponsor, in Hillsborough, N.C. Annual elections will continue.


I wonder what locations they are considering to place some of the exhibits? The rest sounds like it will go to Eurosport's warehouse. Does not sound like they are considering a new location at all for the Hall of Fame with this plan to break up some exhibits to various locations throughout the country.

So players may still be voted into the Hall yet there will not be any exhibit honoring them, kind of defeats the purpose of having a vote doesn't it?
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The should move it to the New Dynamo Stadium...oh wait they haven't build it for us yet....


anyone can use it
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Iceman778,Apr 10 2010
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The should move it to the New Dynamo Stadium...oh wait they haven't build it for us yet....


anyone can use it

wow. mindbending. :blink:
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