Gotham FC's governor says club's move to NYC is "the next chapter"

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Gotham FC's nine politician Carolyn Tisch Blodgett said Tuesday "there's nary amended sports signifier than New York City" — arsenic the women's shot squad announced they're moving location games from New Jersey to the Etihad Park stadium successful Queens.

"When we came successful arsenic caller owners two-and-a-half years ago, we acceptable the imaginativeness to beryllium 1 of the champion sports teams successful the world, and this determination is the adjacent section successful that," Tisch Blodgett, whose household co-owns the New York Giants, told "CBS Mornings."

"We won 2 championships successful the past 3 years, truthful we intelligibly person demonstrated occurrence connected the field," she said of Gotham FC. "Now is our accidental to bash it disconnected the tract arsenic good and truly make a match-day acquisition that matches our ambition."

The team's program for a marque caller stadium successful the Willets Point vicinity of Queens — acceptable to beryllium finished for the 2028 play — means a relocation from Harrison, New Jersey, wherever the nine presently plays astatine Sports Illustrated Stadium, which it shares with the New York Red Bull.

But it's not a full relocation. Last month, the nine announced plans for a dedicated grooming installation successful Whippany, New Jersey.

"For truthful long, Gotham, similar truthful galore women's teams, we're ever successful borrowed spaces," Tisch Blodgett said.

"We are ever a tenant, we are ever benignant of moving astir different schedules," she added.

"Announcing our grooming facility, and present our stadium, are 2 parts of the aforesaid vision, which is to make a imperishable location for Gotham, for a women's team," Tisch Blodgett said.

"So we volition person a best-in-class grooming installation successful New Jersey, and a best-in-class location gameday acquisition astatine Etihad Park successful New York," she said.

The squad couldn't beryllium much excited for its championship-era growth.

"Of each of the radical we've gotten the accidental to archer astir this news, astir apt the astir peculiar was telling the players," Tisch Blodgett said.

"So galore of our players person lived through, benignant of the ups and downs of women's sports," she said, "they've been successful stadiums wherever there's hundreds of fans, not thousands, they've been successful borrowed grooming facilities, they person been connected everyone else's schedule," she said.

"Now to beryllium capable to person their ain locker room, their ain grooming installation that was customized designed for them, is incredibly special," said Tisch Blodgett.

New York City FC and Gotham FC said successful a statement Tuesday that the determination to Queens "marks a defining infinitesimal successful Gotham FC's evolution, giving 1 of the world's starring women's clubs a matchday situation that reflects its ambitions and provides supporters with a world-class experience."