Fascinating story. Thanks for the link.

Yep, good stuff.

clearly the potential for Cary is there as there is a base of dedicated soccer fans, but as someone who tried to get a minor-league soccer team going in upstate NY, you have to have hire the proper folks with marketing/PR ideas and then fund them. If you don't have a clue, why even bother?

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/05/23/la-foes-carolina-usoc-debate-its-about-trying-win

doing the right thing...

Young American defender Gale Agbossoumonde has seen his fledgling career take a variety of winding twists and turns, taking him from Europe to the NASL, with a U.S. National Team cap earned along the way.

What Agbossoumonde has been unable to find as a pro is stability. That might be about to change.

Agbossoumonde has signed a contract with Major League Soccer and will be placed in a special lottery to determine which team he winds up being placed with, sources have confirmed to SBI on Thursday.

The lottery will take place today, with Toronto FC, the LA Galaxy, Seattle Sounders and FC Dallas, among the teams in line to try and land the former U.S. Under-20 national team centerback. Toronto FC has the highest odds in the weighted lottery of landing the young defender.

(UPDATED- Sources indicate that Toronto FC has won the lottery for Agbossoumonde.)