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The team plays its home matches at Giants Stadium located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford; the headquarters are located in Secaucus. During the team's first season, the MetroStars had solid black or solid white jerseys and during all other seasons, the home jerseys had red and black vertical stripes. The MetroStars were known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars through 1997, after which the NY/NJ part of the name was gradually phased out and then dropped altogether.
The team's best result in MLS play was the MLS Cup semifinals in 2000. In the US Open Cup, the MetroStars reached three semifinals (1997, 1998, 2000), before finally reaching their first final in 2003, losing 1-0 to the Chicago Fire. On August 26, 2000, the Metros' Clint Mathis set an MLS record by scoring five goals in a game against the Dallas Burn.
The team's main and bitter rival is D.C. United, with whom they compete annually for the Atlantic Cup, a minor title instituted by the two teams' management that DC United has won four out of five times. During one match in 2006, former DC United player Alecko Eskandarian went to the extent of drinking Red Bull after a goal and spitting it onto the field as an intentional slight on the recently renamed Red Bulls. He was then fined by the Major League Soccer Disciplinary Committee $250. The DC United and Red Bull New York rivalry is perhaps the most embittered rivalry in all of MLS. Other rivals are the New England Revolution and the Chicago Fire. Red Bull New York is also developing a rivalry with the new MLS expansion side Toronto FC due to the little distance between the teams.
The team was sold to Austrian energy drink producer Red Bull and then was renamed Red Bull New York in 2006. The team currently[when?] has plans to build a new stadium named Red Bull Park. The team colors are red, white, and blue.
The yearly cost to run this team is estimated to be over $200 million. This exceeds many other MLS soccer teams. This may seem like a lot of money but compared to the New York Yankees, who spend 5 times that amount in players salaries and coaching an staff, the cost of a MLS soccer team seems minuscule. Some of the high-profile international players that played for the team were Roberto Donadoni, Branco, Lothar Matthäus, Adolfo Valencia, Youri Djorkaeff, Amado Guevara. Some of these players salaries ranged from $1,000,000 up to $17.5 million. The team has had its share of famous coaches as well, including Carlos Queiroz, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Bora Milutinović, as well as Bob Bradley, Mo Johnston, and Bruce Arena. American stars Tony Meola, Tab Ramos, Tim Howard, Alexi Lalas (who was also the team's General Manager, for a brief time), Clint Mathis, and Eddie Pope have all played for the team.
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