Other than marketing, what value does being an affiliate have for an A-League team? It doesn't seem like there was much player movement between either Tampa Bay or DCU with the Kickers the last few years. (Mike Burke's coming to the Kickers didn't have anything -- I think -- to do with the fact that he played at DCU, then Dallas, and DCU was a MLS affiliate of the Kickers).
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