It’s Christmastime again, and soon, two cities will be gifted with a bonafide, certified Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise. That’s right, on December 6, MLS will hear the plans from four cities as they compete for two expansion spots. The cities are (in alphabetical order): Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville, and Sacramento.
I realize that many of you have relished all the offseason news of our Colorado Rapids, but this is a story to which American soccer fans will (or should) pay attention. Next year will see LAFC enter the MLS fold, with Miami still working on, well, whatever FC Beckham needs shoring up down there (the Miami and ‘shoring up’ comments were an unintended pun).