Massive Report · Feb 27, 2018
USL Austin secures authorization to prepare to play in 2019
With the Crew SC move to Austin somewhere between limbo and fiction, the second division United Soccer League has provided owner Bobby Epstein the go ahead for the final stages of preparing the new franchise to hit the field next season in Austin.
Franchise owner, and chairman of the Circuit of the Americas racecourse, Bobby Epstein, told the American-Statesman, “The league has told us we’ve got to get our franchise started or we risk losing it.”
Spoke with Bobby Epstein about USL's green light of his Austin team: "The USL was really very understanding when the Crew said they were (considering) moving here and they let us go into a wait and see mode." (1/2) #CrewSC