Fifteen hundred youth soccer players in California will be looking for a new place to play, unless a court blocks the National Football League's plans to convert the 11-acre Santa Clara Soccer Park into a media center for Super Bowl 50.
Seems when the City of Santa Clara bid to host the February 2016 Super Bowl it agreed to the condition of making the city-owned soccer park available to the NFL. Now, as the soccer league battles the 49ers and the NFL in court, work has begun on covering the fields and building the mediae center on top of them.
As the San Jose Mercury News reported today, a court will hold a hearing next Monday on whether to issue a permanent injunction banning the NFL from taking over the soccer fields. The judge who will hear the case has already turned down two requests for a temporary injunction.
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