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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

The MLS officially announces expansion squads. Utah and Mexican club Chivas (location: SoCal, city TBD) will both receive teams. How to build a club when the first game will be in 8.5 months? ESPN's Marc Connelly has some ideas. Also, do we really need to dwindle the talent-pool in the MLS further? Will this be good or bad for the league as a whole?

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Also, this completes the justgary/ufez full house for the day

Maybe they can hire the out-of-work English pro football players.

I thouht it was agreed that Chivas US was going to play in Carson sharing with the LA Galaxy. Alternate home games keeping the stadium heavily used.

I know that they are looking to expand next year as well. That's all of the soccer talk going on here because of our new stadium. Is there a salary cap in the MLS?

I keep hoping that they will bring up one of the A League teams like Seattle or Minnesota. I would think that either city could support a MLS team.

Huh, I remember so many expansion sites being discussed. When did Utah enter the mix?

So what are the new teams? The Chivas Regals? Chivas Smokin's? The Utah Salt Flats? The Utah Polygamists? The Salt Lake Flats? The Mormon Tabernacles? The Stormin' Mormons? Where's the team-naming contests?!

Utah Saints! (warning: midi file)

Utah Naming Contest Utah Squad Speculation And I read that the league will add two more teams the following season too. All I know is the Quakes need to stay here in the South Bay.

If it's another team with two z's in its name, look for me in a nearby clock tower.

FC SLC has a nice ring to it actually.

Oh, thank God. "It's time that Salt Lake had another professional team, and Major League Soccer is it," Checketts said, adding, "I assure you, [the team] will not have two Z's anywhere in the name."

Well, it's more important that they don't have two Z's anywhere on the field. But I'm glad too. Though the Utah Pizzas might draw that heavy Mormon stoner crowd.

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