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St. Louis is Next Up for New Soccer Team
Tom Timmermann
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 29, 2008
CHESTER, Pa. — Major League Soccer introduced Philadelphia as its 16th team Thursday, with a gala bash in an old electrical plant on the waterfront of this city just south of Philadelphia's airport.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber said St. Louis is now at the front of the line to be team No. 17.
"I've said this many times before, and I'll say it again," Garber said. "We'd like St. Louis to be our next team. ... We want a team in St. Louis. We need teams in the Midwest."
Garber emphasized that the only impediment — "The last piece of the puzzle" — is the financial depth of Jeff Cooper's ownership group. Solve that problem, he reiterated, and St. Louis will get a team.
St. Louis Soccer United Announces Pre-Annexation Agreement
Elizabeth A. Lehnerer
Collinsville Herald
September 1, 2007
The Collinsville City Council at its Sept. 10 meeting is expected to give Jeff Cooper and his organization, St. Louis Soccer United, the go-ahead to develop a $406 million soccer village in the city.
On Friday, the media got an early peek at the pre-annexation proposal, which the council will vote on at the upcoming meeting.
Could This Be Soccer Heaven? (Yep - And It's In Collinsville)
Pete Hayes
The Telegraph
August 10, 2007
The future of St. Louis professional soccer may well be in the Land of Lincoln.
East Alton attorney Jeff Cooper is preparing to make a presentation Monday to the Collinsville City Council for an 18,900-seat soccer specific stadium complex. The venue will be near the intersection of Interstate 255 and Horseshoe Lake Road on a 400-acre tract about a 10-minute drive from the Gateway Arch.
Collinsville Soccer Project Blooming Into Large-Scale, Mixed-Use Development
Alan J. Ortbals
Illinois Business Journal
July 11, 2007
The proposed professional soccer project in Collinsville is moving forward and expanding far beyond a new stadium, according to Jeff Cooper, managing partner in the law firm of SimmonsCooper LLC and investor in St. Louis Professional Soccer Expansion Group LLC which is pursuing the Professional Soccer League franchise.