ATLANTA — MLS will expand to Cincinnati next season and to Miami and Nashville as early as 2020. Austin seems certain to get a team, and probably not at the expense of mistreated Columbus.
That would leave one expansion slot available in getting MLS to its stated goal of 28 markets. On Friday, however, Commissioner Don Garber said he envisions the league growing beyond 28.
“This is a big country,” he said during his annual state of the league address. “There has been so much that has gone on in the last decade or so in this sport, that has been empowering a lot of interested cities across the U.