The former baseball stadium that hosted the Lancaster JetHawks is poised to host a USL-affiliated pro team that could help revitalize the high desert.
The lakes that gave the community its name dried up years ago, taking with them the high-end restaurant, a planned country club and designs to turn the sprawling town on the eastern edge of the
Christian Hernandez, an engineer for Northrop Grumman and the soccer coach at Palmdale High, agreed. “It’s a perfect times. There’s so many soccer fans that this community has, that I think it really is going to have an impact.” “I just love the game. I believe in the game for all the right reasons,” he said. “It unifies people, it brings people together. And I just saw a community that needed it. What else am I going to do? Be a consultant and advisor?”
That convinced Smelzer, a longtime LAFC season-ticket holder, if he could supply professional soccer to the Antelope Valley, there would be a demand for it. How much of a demand? When he sent his first email to the City of Lancaster asking for a meeting to discuss putting a team in the baseball stadium, the nearly instantaneous reply was “how about Tuesday?”
The USL League One, a 12-team professional league, is on the third tier of the U.S. soccer pyramid, two spots below MLS and one below the USL Championship. For an expansion fee of approximately $5 million — about 1/100th of an MLS expansion fee and about a quarter of what it costs to join the USL Championship — Smelzer and his investors got exclusive rights to put an as-of-yet unnamed team in the Antelope Valley.
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