One of the two new teams in the USL Championship from the Southwest is in Tacoma to play their first match against the Tacoma Defiance.
The El Paso Locomotive FC have an interesting name. It’s one of the most used names in world soccer; they share it with teams from Moscow, Tianjin, Zagreb, Kyiv, Plovdiv, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Tashkent and Leipzig. It was originally a shortening of Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society which was a group of Soviet teams supported by the national railroad. Around this time, teams associated with national railroads changed their names to Lokomotiv (spelling varies by language) throughout the Soviet Satellite States.