Major League Soccer News
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Former U.S. men’s national team captain Claudio Reyna has been named the first employee of the New York City Football Club, the Major League Soccer expansion team controlled by Manchester City Football Club.
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The New York Yankees will be an investor in Major League Soccer’s expansion team in New York, which will be controlled by Manchester City Football Club.
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David Beckham will retire from soccer at the end of the season, closing a 21-year career in which he won titles in four countries and became one of the world’s most- recognized people.
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Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc., the operator of the Staples Center in Los Angeles and London’s O2 arena, teamed up with billionaire Eike Batista and Brazil’s largest construction company to run Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium for 35 years.
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Tim Leiweke has been hired as president and chief executive officer of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., the sports and real estate group that owns the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League and the Raptors professional basketball club.
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Major League Soccer is in “exploratory” discussions with New York City officials to find a home for a new team in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, according to a league official.
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Major League Soccer is taking its plan to build a 25,000-seat home for a new team in New York City to the politicians in Queens who will decide the project’s fate.
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Major League Soccer signed a three- year national television contract with NBC Sports Group that will begin with the 2012 season.
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Freddy Adu, who was offered a contract with Italy’s Inter Milan when he was 11 and signed an endorsement deal with Nike Inc. at age 13, signed with the Philadelphia Union, returning to Major League Soccer on a free transfer from Europe.
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Lance Armstrong said he cheated by taking drugs through all of his record seven Tour de France cycling championships.
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