Michael Murphy

Big screen. Food trucks. A pre-match youth street tournament. Free, but grab your tickets: clevelandprosoccer.com/summer This is part of our SUMMER OF SOCCER, a whole season of watch parties, free pickup games, local matches across Northeast Ohio.

How to position @forestcityclev and @ClevelandAstra relative to each other was a big, long process in itself. Should they have the same name? Should they look like twins? Should they hold hands or act like they’ve never met? We decided to create two distinctive brands that are as strong standing on their own as they are sitting next to each other. That had shared DNA, but their own identities, attitudes, mythology. Like really cool cousins. And now that both are here and we can look at them standing next to each other... (breathe in) we are so ready to go! Lots of new news dropping this week. Sign up for updates to be first to know: clevelandprosoccer.com

Surprised they didn’t come closer to shore. I’m sure there was a valid reason, but it’s hard to know what it could’ve been.

Welcome USS Cleveland to @LakewoodOH @USNavy

Inspired by the cosmos, lake and architecture, the color palette designer @akocher9 developed for @ClevelandAstra anchors us in Cleveland while we look up toward the stars: VIOLET AD ASTRA 💜 is the color of a nebula. Invisible to the naked eye, but through a telescope, you can see blue-violet clouds: it’s stars taking shape! You’re not seeing what is; you’re seeing the future. LAKE ERIE MIDNIGHT 🌊 is a deep navy, nearly black, evoking the night skies over Lake Erie with a dash of starlight. GOLDEN ERA ✨ is an architectural gold inspired by Cleveland’s great age of ambition, civic design and industry, reflected in such landmarks as the Arcade, Guardians of Traffic and Terminal Tower.

Cleveland Astra was named as much for the cosmos that inspire joy, curiosity and wonder – as the soccer stars that consistently emerge from our region. clevelandastra.com

The Land’s first pro women’s soccer team to be named Cleveland Astra ⚽️

She’s here ✨ Cleveland Astra was named as much for the cosmos that inspire joy, curiosity and wonder – as the soccer stars that consistently emerge from our region. Latin for “stars,” @ClevelandAstra aims to be a gathering force. A constant, a guiding light. Shaping the core of our crest is Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation that’s ever present in the sky and points explorers toward the North Star. We will continue to tell the story of this team, all of the stars across Northeast Ohio, and create this new chapter in Cleveland sports history, together. Let’s go, Astra! ⚽️

“Dreams asked our daughters to go farther as if stars aren’t a part of us.” @aliblack_poet ✨ The journey truly begins tomorrow, May 4. Join our list to get our women’s team announcement before anyone else. Sign up: clevelandprosoccer.com

A new era begins. We are proud to announce a strategic investment by global investment firm KKR and the formation of Hometown Soccer Holdings, focused on growing our sport and our league. New club brands, new stadiums, enhanced matchday experiences. This is the next phase of growth, and we could not be more excited. Details: soc.cr/4tIvufT

@NickCaminoWKYC Agree. He could give me a 14 mile head start and still beat me.

In my opinion, this is as big if not bigger than Roger Bannister running the first sub-4-minute mile. Sabastian Sawe finished a marathon in under 2 hours. espn.com/olympics/track…

@UH_cityhall @ShakerOnline Spring walk. Great connectivity. @JohnCarrollU activity alive and well on Warrensville! Students have sweet set-ups to watch the NFL draft or Stanley Cup

On May 9, the USS Cleveland will pass Lakewood on its way to Cleveland for its commissioning. This is the first time in 250 years that a US Navy ship is commissioned in Ohio. Bring your American flags to the Park to greet the ship as it passes Lakewood! events.usscleveland.org

This is incredible @JordanSpieth knew about the player-caddie relationship long before Michael Greller @LOOPERSTHEMOVIE @jesuitdallas @CaddieNetwork @WardClayton

So, how did @cleprosoccer land on the name @forestcityclev?

@NickCaminoWKYC @UConnHuskies @UConnMBB @MarchMadnessMBB So great he’ll never forget that!

Our son Giovanni has watched the UConn buzzer-beater against Duke “once or twice”… He’s ready for the Final Four. 🤣🤣 Future voice of March Madness. @UConnHuskies @UConnMBB @MarchMadnessMBB

The monogram: FCCle is a secondary mark that sneaks up on you as a fave. We consider it a family stamp. In medieval times, we would have put it on our shield. There’s something about that script Cle that makes it feel like home.

The Forest City Cleveland Capsule Collection I, now available: forestcitycle.com/shop

As the lights go down on another season, we want to take a beat and be so proud of our friends @clecrunch 🫶 What you brought back in 2020 and all you’ve built since is such a gift to have in Cleveland. You’ve not only consistently built a winning team, but bring so much excitement, so much energy to the sport. For many of us, the Cleveland Crunch was an essential part of our childhood — the reason soccer fans never had a Cleveland championship drought 👑 And Cleveland fans are so lucky to have the Crunch as an essential part of soccer life again. Congrats on this season, the remarkable move to Downtown Cleveland, and all you build next!

Come on you trees! 🌲 Forest City isn't nostalgia. It's a declaration. Cleveland earned that name once; we named our club after the charge to earn it again. So we're doing the work: figuring out where a soccer club fits meaningfully in a greener Cleveland. Not as a side project. As the point.