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| | Major League Soccer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | MLS was formed on December 17, 1993, in fulfillment of Alan Rothenberg and U.S. Soccer's promise to FIFA to establish a "Division One" professional football (soccer) league in exchange for the staging of the FIFA World Cup USA 1994 in the United States. |
 | | First, soccer is gaining coverage on American television, with the Fox Soccer Channel and the ABC/ESPN family of channels now airing games in MLS, various Latin American leagues, major European leagues, as well as the World Cup. |
 | | In the age of cable TV and the internet, American professional soccer also suffers from the comparison with European and Latin American competitions whose games can easily be followed in the states (in the past, such coverage was limited at best) and are often considered to be of a higher standard. |
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