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Portland, Vancouver, Atlanta, Miami, Montreal, Ottawa and St. Louis will compete for the 17th and 18th MLS franchises, expected to begin play early next decade.
Details are available at the official MLS website.
Seattle Sounders FC begin play next year as the 15th team, and Philadelphia will join in 2010.
According to the league: The MLS expansion application required prospective owners to provide information such as details about the applicant’s proposed ownership group, stadium plan and financing, and an analysis of the potential expansion market.
The applications will be reviewed by the League office and the MLS Expansion Committee. An announcement regarding which markets will receive the next two expansion clubs will take place during the fourth quarter of 2008 or the first quarter of 2009.
Today is deadline day for submissions from cities interested in becoming the 17th and 18th Major League Soccer markets.
As expected, Portland, Vancouver and the Canadian candidates, will make their pitches.
And suddenly a MLS return to Miami -- where the Fusion quickly failed -- seems to have moved to the front burner behind the power of FC Barcelona.
And isn't it nice to be watching all the scrambling from an area already safetly in the MLS family?
