By 2010 there is expected to be 16 teams in Major League Soccer, so if you can do simple math, thats an addition of 3 teams in 3 years.  That is exciting news for me, first because I’m a fan of MLS and I want to see the league grow and expand.  Secondly it is exciting because of the chances that I get a team playing home games a little bit closer to my home than the nearest home MLS team which is over 600 miles away from me right now.  I guess it wouldn’t be a real close, and could a Minnesota soccer fan really get behind a team from Milwaukee?  I guess if they are the closest MLS team it might have to happen.

Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle are all the places that expansion has been talked about.  There has also been talk of bringing a team back to San Jose, who had the earthquakes leave for Houston after the 2005 season.  I can’t imagine that Seattle and Portland will both be without an MLS team by 2010.  I figured Seattle would have an MLS team by now, but maybe Portland will be the one that gets a team out there.  Cleveland was another on that has heard talk of expansion for quite a while now, so they seem a strong candidate, plus they probably got Drew Carey there pushing for a team and that can’t hurt.  St. Louis would be my last pick to be one of the 3 lucky cities that gets a team by 2010.  They seem to be a great soccer city from what I hear.  I don’t know much about it other than getting pounded by the Busch youth soccer team at the region 2 tournament years ago when my summer team dominated North Dakota.

Milwaukee would probably be the place that I’d get to most games right now if they got a team, so that would be cool, but who knows what their chances are.  Check out what the Eight Guys Short have to say about Milwaukee and an expansion team there.