Well My other team Ottawa Fury, who for the last 3 years have played in the NASL (North American Soccer League), this is one level below MLS, there were 12 teams in the league, the league was on shaky round and the Ottawa Fury decided to leave and join the USL (United Soccer League) this is a league of 30 teams consisting of 2 divisions, East and West and play a 32 game schedule.
The Fury started their training camp 3 weeks ago. 9 players from last year have returned, and the Fury have an affiliation with MLS team Montreal Impact, the Fury have 21 players signed including 3 on season loan from the Impact, it is expected 2 more players will be signed before the season starts.
As you can imagine Ottawa is not the place to play football outside at this time of year, so all the training is done in huge dome stadiums in Ottawa, they played their first exhibition game last friday beating a local team 7-0. On sunday they flew down to Florida for a 10 day bonding and further outdoor traning at IMG Academy which is one of the largest sports Academies in the US. numerous soccer, football, baseball, tennis, golf use these year round facilities, for training and games.
There are currently at least 5 professional teams and a few non-professional teams holding training camps there, and every evening there is at least one exhibition game being held on one of the numerous fields they have.
The Fury have 3 games scheduled and the first one is tonight against St Louis FC and i intend to be there as i'm on holiday staying nearby, they also have games scheduled thursday and saturday, all games are against other USL teams
Paul Dalglish is still the coach and manager and former Argyle goalie Bruce Grobbelaar is assistant coach and this year they are joined by Julien De Guzman who recently retired as a player, De Guzman was Canada's national captain and was last years Fury captain
There will be a Live Stream of tonights game and the other 2 games at :
http://live.imgacademytv.com/ kickoff tonight is at 6pm (11pm UK time)