Orlando City SC on Thursday announced its long-awaited training facility, though it has pivoted from its previous site at Lake Nona.
The complex will be at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee and will open in July of 2019. The park is the former spring training complex for the Houston Astros and it will be fully renovated to be permanent training facility of Orlando City and the Orlando Pride.
“The training complex is the heart of our soccer operations. It’s where our product on the field reports to work every day, where they eat and recover, and most importantly, where they build the team culture and attitude that carries over to the stadium on match days,” Orlando City SC CEO Alex Leitão said in a statement.