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Transcript: Major League Soccer to Launch Season in San Jose
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- April 5, 1996
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The latest attempt to form a successful professional soccer league
in the United States will begin tomorrow with the first match of the
season between the Washington, D.C., United and the San Jose Clash
teams.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: Tomorrow in San Jose, California, professional
soccer begins its latest and perhaps last best attempt at catching
on in America. Major League Soccer, a 10 team outdoor men's professional
league will debut with a game between Washington, D.C., United and
the San Jose Clash. The last experiment with the big time soccer
league flamed out when the North American Soccer League folded in
1985. Skeptics say Major League Soccer is ...