A sense of stagnation is setting in around MLS. The league needs a World Cup bump
A sense of stagnation is setting in around MLS. The league needs a World Cup bump. The 1994 World Cup transformed the domestic game in the US.
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The 1994 World Cup transformed the domestic game in the US. MLS will hope a similar change can give the league a much-needed jolt In the thinking of the people who put them on, mega-events can never just be their own thing.
They must leave a legacy, or, if possible, a Legacy. Remake the landscape; alter the course of history; change the whole world, if that isn’t too much to ask.
Most World Cups don’t really leave much of one, once the dust has settled. Or if they do, it’s a legacy of white elephant stadiums that burden the host nation for many years.