'11 goals, two hat-tricks, three pens, one red and several punch-ups ... it was the greatest final ever played on American soil'
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* Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber recently announced plans to extend his organisation’s geographic reach by adding five new franchises by 2020. The new entrants will boost MLS to 24 teams – a haunting reminder for older American fans who witnessed the North American Soccer League’s swift demise after peaking at 24 franchises in the late 1970s. But, as Ian Thomson writes, it's not as if the NASL or its predecessors, including the 'one year wonder' of the United Soccer Association, were without their thrills and spills.
'11 goals, two hat-tricks, three pens, one red and several punch-ups ... it was the greatest final ever played on American soil'
'11 goals, two hat-tricks, three pens, one…
'11 goals, two hat-tricks, three pens, one red and several punch-ups ... it was the greatest final ever played on American soil'
* Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber recently announced plans to extend his organisation’s geographic reach by adding five new franchises by 2020. The new entrants will boost MLS to 24 teams – a haunting reminder for older American fans who witnessed the North American Soccer League’s swift demise after peaking at 24 franchises in the late 1970s. But, as Ian Thomson writes, it's not as if the NASL or its predecessors, including the 'one year wonder' of the United Soccer Association, were without their thrills and spills.