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The I-5 rivalries will return in 2011.
Just days after awarding a 2011 expansion franchise to Vancouver, MLS announced this morning that Portland will come in the same season.
The Nortwest cities beat out St. Louis and Ottawa.
“A city with such a storied soccer tradition deserves an MLS team, and we are proud to have Portland join the top level of professional soccer in our region,” MLS commissioner Don Garber said. “Merritt Paulson and his family provide a vibrant and innovative ownership group that truly loves the world’s game and we believe PGE Park will provide a world-class soccer environment for soccer fans.”
And this now means that four consecutive MLS expansion franchises are all clustered from northern California to southern B.C.: San Jose, Seattle, Vancouver and Portland.
Could the Puget Sound soccer fan have imagined a better last 24 hours?
... and I missed it.
Not only did I miss it, but I got back to my Portland hotel last light, clicked around the ESPN channels for a couple of hours and NEVER got a single highlight or even a mention.
Also pretty ominously, the sports reports on Portland's 11 o'clock news shows also mentioned nothing of the start of the MLS season. Granted, the NCAA tournament at the Rose Garden is the big news here; but still, Portland sees itself as a soccer town, and it's expecting to get an MLS expansion franchise today, so you might think some mention of that expansion team's first kick up I-5.
Fortunately, however, there was John McGrath's great column in today's News Tribune ... the next-best thing to being there.
