Major League Soccer says it’s finally ready to take its best shot at landing a new franchise for Queens.
League honchos said yesterday they hope to reveal formal plans in four to six weeks to move ahead with a controversial soccer-stadium project for Flushing Meadows Park — even with political support far from secured.
And while the recently revived New York Cosmos, who are in the second-tier North American Soccer League, say they’re not interested in being MLS’s 20th franchise, sources told the Post the front-runners for the new franchise are the owners of the English Premier League’s popular Manchester City club.
“If we get this done, it will be in Flushing Meadows Park. There is no Plan B,” MLS commissioner Don Garber told The AP yesterday.
Mayor Bloomberg considers the $300 million, 25,000-seat stadium plan a legacy project, but it has received mixed reactions from other pols and come under fire from local activists because it would mean the replacement of 13 acres of parkland.