RE: Toronto - imo, no go WAS: [nas] Expansion banter

>But give Toronto the advantage of playing most of
>Canada's best players, to the detriment of MLS?  Screw
>that noise.
>
>I am all for the development of soccer outside the US,
>as long as it isn't at the detriment of the US
>development - at least now.  Let's get a bit farther
>down the road before we go out and bootstrap someone
>else.

I'm not sure I favor expansion into Canada either, but that being said, I'm 
not so sure that even the full Canadian national team would be any better than 
a mid-table club in MLS.  And a Toronto franchise would be playing without 
some of Canada's best players (Radzinski, DeRosario, Onstad, Bent, Hirschfeld; 
altho Onstad will likely have retired by the time there is a Toronto 
franchise, and DeRosario would probably not be protected in an expansion 
draft).

As far as expansion goes, I'd like to see a 16-20 team league, expansion every 
3 years:

2005-Philadelphia, Houston
2008-Seattle, NYC (Cosmos)
2011-San Diego, St. Louis
2014?-Miami, Rochester
2017?-Minneapolis, Milwaukee, or Toronto (any 2)



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