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US Soccer History

Pro/rel and the “Fricker Plan”: Killed or never was?

Was a plan to introduce promotion/relegation in US professional soccer before the 1994 World Cup killed? Steve Holroyd looks at the evidence.

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Daily news roundups

League says DC should’ve gotten two red cards, Riise “not going to happen,” Vitoria training again, FIFA, more

League tells Jim Curtin DC should’ve been shown two red cards in Saturday’s loss. Source says Riise to Union not happening. Vitoria returns to training. Latest on the FIFA corruption scandal. More.

Philadelphia Soccer History

Philly and the New York Cosmopolitans

In 1891, some 79 years before the founding of the NASL’s New York Cosmos, an All-Philadelphia team played the New York Cosmopolitans in the first of a series of games for the Philadelphia-New York intercity championship.