It was recently announced that MLS hopes to bring two more new teams to the league in 2011. Seattle is coming on next season and Philadelphia the following year. Now all the talk of expansion teams is in Canada. I do still think that St. Louis will probably get one and likely Vancouver could get the other.
Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash is a big soccer fan and former player. Nash along with USL’s Vancouver Whitecaps owner Greg Kerfoot want to bring MLS to Vancouver. The best part of this plan is that they want the team to be not-for-profit. All profits the team would make would be invested back into amateur soccer in BC. As far as I know this would be a first for Major League Soccer.
The owner of the Vancouver Canucks, Francesco Aquilini, was meeting with Nash and Kerfoot recently about MLS in Vancouver. It is yet to be known weather Aquilini would be a potential partner or competitor to Nash and Kerfoot when it comes to bringing MLS to Vancouver.
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