Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Councilman Ricki Barlow, whose district includes Cashman Field, celebrate minor league soccer coming to Las Vegas in 2018. Photo credit: Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau

Las Vegas City Council Approves Lease for New Minor League Soccer Team at Cashman Field in 2018

By ALAN SNEL It may not be the Big Leagues of professional soccer, but Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was still happy Wednesday to have a minor league soccer team in downtown's Cashman Field starting in 2018. "We've been looking at this for three, four years," Goodman said of the city trying to get a soccer team. "We know the appetite is there." The Las Vegas City Council today approved a lease that will allow a new United Soccer League (USL) team to start playing at Cashman Field in 2018. The Las Vegas USL team will be the 33rd team in the league and can be a feeder team to Major League Soccer. "This town will embrace professional soccer," USL team owner Brett Lashbrook told the Las Vegas City Council. Technic
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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.