Future MLS Teams Won’t Know Their FCs From Their ACs

Major League Soccer has quite the calamity on it’s hands. When it comes to all of the proposed teams that are to be unveiled in the next few years, what in the world are they to be named? Seattle is set to take the professional American soccer stage in 2009 and then Philly and St. Louis will take suit in 2010 and 2011. Yet, befuddlement has set in for MLS officials who don’t want to see FC or “United” used again, since FC Dallas and D.C. United are already proprietors. Shiver me timbers. What are they to do?

No MLS club has yet used a couple of other favorites: AC (for athletic club) or City or Inter, and they all have something going for them.
And what about United? In England, Manchester United happily exists side by side with Newcastle United and West Ham United in the Premier League, and there are any number of other Uniteds scattered around the country.
So what if Seattle, Philadelphia or St. Louis chooses to be called United? It might already have happened, in fact. The investment and development group trying to land a team in St. Louis is called St. Louis Soccer United and it already has a website (stloiussoccerunited.com) and a rather swank logo.
Would D.C. United object to there being another United or two in the league? Would MLS object?

ksjdf8! Seriously, is this what people are really talking about? We say the MLS should spend some time investigating David Beckham’s contract to find that hidden clause that ships him out of here. We suggest officials evalutate methods to get more Cuahutemoc’s and De Rosario’s in the league. Oh, and don’t name the Philly team “Liberty” or “Cheesesteaks.”
Will new MLS teams recycle old names? [LATimes]
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