The USL will lose FC Cincinnati. It needs a replacement. And the candidate has been chosen, a candidate that has been waiting for some time. For El Paso Locomotive, that’s in more ways than one.
The Locomotive will join FC Juarez in Mexico’s Liga Ascenzo, in which owner MountainStar Sports Group holds an interest. Other teams in the MountainStar family include the El Paso Diablos and other minor league baseball teams.
MountainStar President Alan Ledford has a wealth of pro soccer experience, including working with Portland Timbers before they joined MLS. That experience gives a big hint of MountainStar’s ultimate plans for the Locomotive.