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Major League Soccer (MLS) is the professional first-division league in the United States. As of the current 2023 season, it has 29 teams — 26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada. MLS is currently the largest first-division professional soccer league in the world by number of teams.
Major League Soccer was established as the top level of professional soccer in the United States in 1993 with 10 teams and began play in 1996. It has expanded several times since 1998 into new markets across the United States and, since 2006, Canada. St. Louis City SC is the 29th MLS team and the most recent expansion team, having joined the ...
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FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural ...
Major League Soccer with ESPN and ABC Sports announced the league's first television rights deal on March 15, 1994, without any players, coaches, or teams in place. The three-year agreement covered English-language broadcasting for the 1996–1998 seasons, and committed 10 matches on ESPN, 25 on ESPN2, and the MLS Cup on ABC.
Minnesota United FC is an American professional soccer club based in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, metropolitan area. The club plays in the Western Conference of Major League Soccer. The club began play in 2017 [3] [4] as the league's 22nd club, and replaced the North American Soccer League (NASL) franchise of the same name .
Association football, commonly known as football, or soccer, [a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular ...
The Duke Blue Devils men's soccer team represents Duke University in the ACC and in all other men's NCAA Division I Soccer competitions. They won their first and only NCAA tournament in 1986, co-captained by their current head coach, John Kerr Jr. and Mike Linenberger.