Why Philadelphia?0

Philadelphia has been left without a Major League Soccer franchise for the first eleven, soon to be twelve, seasons of the league’s existence. A combination of factors seems to have worked against the effort to complete the Atlantic Seaboard foursome. The metro areas of Boston, New York City and Washington DC all had investors in place in 1995 in conjunction with natural grass stadia, while Philadelphia could have had interest, the artificial surfaces at the Vet and Franklin Field weren’t conducive to the game, and both were already shared by multiple teams.
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