Haha looks like that is exactly what i did! Thank you for sharing! I didn't even realize RB wasn't for Red Bull in Leipzig's case! That's a very funny work around!

Rasenballsport is actually meaningless in German. Its roughly translated into English as "Lawn ball sports", they just made it up to get around the rule.

Danm that's brilliant

_Illusion 100_

Yeah what a name for a club lmao. Grass ball sport Leipzig….Sounds like a football club totally. Lmao

Underrated comment! 👆

Ohh that comment is f**king amazing 😂🤣😂😅😂😅😂😅

That's the opposite of ironic. It's apt. It would be ironic if they were called the "Tampa Bay Solvency".

Never realised that.

@@ramshacklealex7772 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yeah that’s a good point!

Just look at the Pels. Does NOLA as a whole really care about much else besides the Saints and LSU? 😅

typically good climate. Umm, hurricanes in the general area arent uncommon at all, so you might be stretching that just a wee bit LOL

New Orleans is on the MLS expansion list so soon

Its not the league which decides where to expand to. It's the local markets which become attractive to the league. New Orleans needs 1) a Billionaire interested in paying $600 million for a team 2) a viable stadium plan 3) a huge marketing budget

You’ll never get a strong European audience without promotion and relegation

it is what it is, MLS will never be able to please everyone. People who have been following the league for a while know that the league is really starting to make some progress these days and there are exciting days ahead

I don't think they're appealing to American audience at all with the play-off format. It's just an American soccer league formatting itself after other American sports leagues, sort of like how European leagues of American sports (basketball) have pro-reg instead of a closed system; they're keeping the system in which they know and are familiar with. The naming of clubs is what sticks as trying to appeal to European sensibilities.

TBH, a play-off format would make most European countries' national leagues more interesting. In Spain, Italy and most extremely in France and Germany the leagues seem to exist exclusively to supply points to the usuals suspects so they become champions almost each year.

It feels like MLS is having a bit of an identity crisis. I fear that it feels like Brazilian friend who has lived most of her life in Portugal. The Portuguese don't see her as Portuguese enough and see her as Brazilian, while the Brazilians don't see her Brazilian enough and see her as Portuguese. The MLS seem the same, they seem to European to be seen as American, but too Americanise to be popular with Europeans.

Yeah I'd be heartbroken to have one of my teams move! That must have sucked!

Fellow quakes fan here and i will never forgive alexi lalas for doing that

Is there a website where I can learn more about the history of that move to Houston?

@@JustinLearnsThings the current Quakes owner is horrible. If you follow the Oakland A’s baseball team then that’s all you need to know. Owned by the same guy. I’ve even met the middle man who facilitated the deal between Don Garber/Fisher. Nice guy but he isn’t complaining since he’s sitting as comfortable as the owner at this point.

@@JustinLearnsThings @Omar Juarez That's a bummer and understand of respect, plus hard core fans since day one, especially rich tradition. Great example is Columbus Crew when prior owner threatened to move team to Austin if new stadium wasn't built before Haslens took over in 2019. Of course, die hard fans and city here in Columbus prevented that from happening in moving team as think even current MLS Commissioner Don Garber isn't much fan favorite here in Columbus was probably going to let it go through. However, new stadium was built in downtown area and opened last year. Hence, prior owner now owns Austin and got expansion team out of it. Another example is the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League when prior owner Art Modell moved to Baltimore in 1997 due to dispute with city of Cleveland in new stadiums for football and baseball as Indians got new stadium but be couple more years for the Browns with contract of old Municipal Stadium at time + factors. In 2000, the newly named Baltimore Ravens (new name as uproar by Browns fans kept original name in Cleveland) won the Super Bowl, 4 years after move and hate Baltimore for that as much as Pittsburgh or even more. Even Steelers fans were shocked as that old, traditional rivalry was haulted for a while. Around time of Browns move to Baltimore, think Ohio passed a law (Modell Rule?) where a team name will be kept in state despite owner wanting to move another state or something similar to those lines as I don't know exact detail to be honest. Think in 2004, the Cleveland Browns were reinstated after hiatus. Therefore, from prior statement and due new law, The Columbus Crew stayed. Wish Bay area/San Jose didn't have brief hiatus as Browns did and had same situation like The Crew had in strong support overriding political power, $$, and greed that takes place in society today.

Lol 😂 lawn ball sport! That’s amazing!! Thank you for this!!

@@JustinLearnsThings No sweat. Love the vids.

That is super cool that they would not let a corporation put their name on a club. I really wish this country would have the balls to do that.

Is that short for sons of Ben Vereen? Ben Franklin the first American citizen?

From Philly and didn’t know that. Pretty awesome and those guys are fanatics

Not true. The Metrostars had Empire Support Club.

And That team Will lose To the KING ATLAS 🔴⚫

Yeah I definitely enjoyed those style names too!

Olso names of clubs from older league like "LA Aztecs", "New York Cosmos", "Washington Diplomats", "philadelphia atoms" instead of boring "New York City FC", "XYZ City/united/FC".

Yep, that made the clubs less boring. Naming your club as United or FC were lame, boring and lazy

The NWSL does that too! Courage, Pride, Dash, Reign, Spirit, etc.

Metrostars was awesome. I just wished they had continued to name teams that way.

That's a good point on regional representation of the DMV!

"SC Portugal" looks pretty wierd. While "Sporting Club de Portugal" is thier official name most people say sporting c.p. or Sporting Lisbon

Sc Freiburg, Lille osc, Sporting cp.

@Michael Keegan SC Heerenveen (the Netherlands)

SC Corinthians Paulista (Brazil)

SC at the end though not the beginning lol

Right and this is a video about MLS Team names... so SC in these circumstances stand for soccer club.

We don't have sports clubs in professional sports leagues, so it would not make sense.

@@jldch26 What do you mean? You mean in North America specifically? Is there no club that provides a different sport than what they are known for in NA? SC "Sports Club" is used by clubs that are not solely there for football/soccer as many clubs were founded back in the day to provide different sports for the people. A typical example would be SC Freiburg in Germany or SK Rapid Wien in Austria ("SK" because "Club" can also be written as "Klub" starting with a K).

@@MrReese all our professional leagues except the few independent ones run on a franchise model. We have sports clubs but there's no professional teams to em. Amateur leagues sure. But I can't think of any sports club providing professional competition in any sport here in the U.S. now the country is huge so I could be wrong.

@@jldch26 But does franchise model mean the club/team is not allowed to provide other sports, even in lower leagues maybe?

You know you could of added a cool nickname.

DCTID! The atmosphere at Keyworth is incredible!

Oh dang I totally missed that! Really good connection!

Nice! I hadn't realized they tried to change the name at that point! That's a great bit of information!

And the way it was always meant to be

Came here to say this! Adrian and the new owners desperately wanted to rebrand and change the name. How often does a write-in get the highest percentage of votes!? Pretty crazy.

It’s not, it’s a tournament because there is no relegation. At least that is how most people I know in Europe think.

@@NebulousUKpostsGamingChannel it’s a retirement league where superstars go when they can’t play in Europe’s top leagues anymore and want some extra cash

@@NebulousUKpostsGamingChannel It is a league, yes they're isn't relegation. ITs as much a league as the NFL, NBA, MLB, and every sports league in the US. Also, many european hockey leagues don't have relegation, does that make them tournaments. They're are many types of leagues and the American Model is one of them. Many non-american leagues follow this format. You have to qualify for a tournament, like the World Cup, Copa America, and so on. This is a league because the teams are already established. You don't need relegation to make it a league.

@@imanillegalimmigrant Nobody that I know in Europe likes Hockey, which interests me which countries do like it. Germany? Poland?

@@thedannyboy1221 And its a league where American talent is born and sold of to the European Leagues, Tyler Adams, Red Bull New York. Pepi, eventually Europe. Chris Muller, Orland City FC. Busio, SKC. Tyler Adams, Roma. Our league has lost of young talent but no one cares. Every one ignores that for the 20 or so old players that want cash. Its the same thing for the A-League and Indian Super League, but we get 20x the criticism. I don't get it. MLS is 25 Years old. What as the English Football League like when it was 25 years old, back in 1913/14. Probably not that good with decent-ish players and mediocre attendance. No, I don't think MLS is better than the Top 5 leagues like some idiotic MLS fans. The league is top 20 in the world and thats okay. The league does have old players that are just their for a quick buck. But thats less than 1% of the league. Europeans just focus on that just to make fun of MLS. So what, our league is consistently giving you guys talent and world betters and you guys call us a RETIREMENT league for like 30 players. Its only a few clubs that are like that, LA Galaxy, New York/New Jersey Re Bulls, Orlando City FC, Inter Miami CF, and to a certain extent NYCFC. So 5 teams out of almost 30. The treatment of some of these academy teams like NY Red Bulls and FC Dallas, Sporting Kansas and other USL teams are just idiotic. Yes, we do have old players, but our league is so much more than that. Passionate fan bases that beat lots of European ones, players getting drafted late and becoming stars in this league, young stars hoping to get a move an ambitious project in Europe. The league has so much history with franchises dating back to the 70's. Traditions lasting through generation. All of that is avoided because of 30 old guys. You haven't even watched MLS. You probably cant name 10 MLS right now. All you know is that they're are old players and that it's a retirement league. If you do a 5 minute google search, you'll see that MLS is much more than a league that old ageing Europeans come to die. Also, many of the "Europeans that cant play in the top leagues" ended up doing so. Beckham went to PSG, Zlatan to AC Milan, and Lampard to Man City. So please, don't just go around criticising MLS fans for asking for respect when we don't even get that respect on our own nation.

Oh that’s a good tidbit! Knew that RSL had an academy in AZ but didn’t know much beyond that

@@JustinLearnsThings RSL got their name given to them FROM Real Madrid. They were there from the beginning of the club. The partnership didn't last, but the name stayed. So it wasn't given by actual royalty, but the name was given to them by Real Madrid, so that's good enough.

A tid bit about Real Madrid is that the real part is there because it gained royal accent from the spanish crown

@@PeterBuvik it's on the video😅

my cousin played for rhat

Nice thanks for the info!

@@JustinLearnsThings Also the regional commuter train is called The Sounder.

Oh no I didn’t! That’s some good info, thanks for sharing!!

To be specific, there is no "greater" St. Louis County, as the City of St. Louis is a separate entity from the County and one of the few cities in the country that doesn't belong to any county. The county surrounding St. Louis (on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River) just happens to have been named after the city despite not actually containing it.

@@Compucles Baltimore City raising their hand in unison with STL

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*Citrus Bowl, now Camping World Stadium. However now they have a soccer specific stadium, Exploria Stadium.

So what do you euro posers chant? Go City or Go Orlando?

@@TheMrPeteChannel euro posers? As americans haven’t been playing the sport almost as long as the English. Hell, our first professional team started the same year as Notts County. And if you’re talking about recently the MLS was formed a year after the premier league. Get your weak ass Eurocentrism out of here.

Yeah I was bummed when they almost changed it and really glad they kept it!

Yep I prefer the original crest (the three labourers). But with today trend when the clubs simplify their crest, they should remodel the crest without leaving the roots. I think it would be a proper crest if they remodeled it with the helmets or hard hat with the name of crew in front of the helmet. And the helmet itself was inside a shield

The second crest with the checkerboard pattern was decent but the new one is just lazy and harsh on the eyes. Not sure what they were thinking.

Yes and here in America most people have no idea what Dynamo means and they just thought it was cool to copy Europe. The Huston Dynamo has nowhere near the prestige Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo Zagreb, Dinamo Tbilisi, Dinamo Bucharesti, Dynamo Dresden and others. Look at Real Salt Lake. They just want to be "cool" like Real Madrid. It's just cringy. I am a huge fan of Eastern European soccer and probably the biggest reasons is the history. MLS has no history so they make history up. The team trying the beat to show some history I guess woukd be the New England Revolution since they had until a few months ago a good logo and back in 2016 jerseys made to resemble revolutionary war uniforms. I just feel like Americans try to copy Europe because they desperately want to be like Europe soccer wise. MLS was made in the 90's soccer teams around the world have been around many times that and I feel have better history and often times quality too. This is however, just my opinion

@@jakearmstrong335 My club existed before MLS as the video states. We have history, just not as old. In 2 years my club will have been around for 50 years and we just won the CONCACAF Champions League so you WILL hear us at the FIFA Club World Cup. Seattle Sounders Football Club

@@jakearmstrong335 other Dynamo teams were employees of power plants. Dynamos convert mechanical to electric power. Houston, with all the energy and oil industries is known as the energy capital of the world. Hence, dynamo. So, yeah. Shut up.

@@morganbrokaw5190 where did you learn that. The Dynamo/Dinamo teams of The communist bloc are from the Dynamo Sports Club. This is from the NKVD not mechanical or anything like that. Dynamo Houston made up the Dynamo name for themselves they are compleatly unrelated to the Dynamo Sports Club of the Communist Bloc

Feel Like England FC should be the next MLS team name.

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Dude that's epic! I liked having him at NYCFC, ended up getting a jersey.

That's awesome I'm also part of the 5 stripes

Never been to Maine myself but I hear Portland Maine is beautiful! Thanks for checking out the video!

That's great to hear! I'm in Maine and I'd love to get a team in Portland. It would make traveling to games a lot easier. 😅 It probably won't happen because "New England Revolution" is supposed to represent the entire New England region, Maine included. Also we never get professional sports teams, only minor league ones. I'd love to be wrong though haha.

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Haha! I think that would be a pretty fun fan experience! Yeah, I've come across that a couple of times where the owner heavily puts their hand on the scale of the 'Fan vote'!

THansk for checking it out!

Yeah the history of the MLS and US soccer in general is quite interesting!

Thanks for watching! Really appreciate your kind words!

Nice! Who’s your premier league club?

@@JustinLearnsThings Manchester United. I was a big fan of Ryan Giggs. Been tough times for nearly the last decade, however.

Ah nice! I’ve been a Liverpool fan for a little over a decade… I was thinking of doing an EPL video, but haven’t really landed on what those would be yet!

@@JustinLearnsThings I have a lot of respect for Liverpool. A fine club with a rich history. One idea on how to approach Premiere League: perhaps a brief overview of how promotion/relegation works (since that's a weird concept to American-only sports fans), then maybe the history of the 20 clubs who have spent the most time in Premiere League.

Those are great ideas!! Thank you!

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Nice! Thank you for sharing that!

Thanks so much!! Working on improving some of my design and animation abilities, hope that helps gets things moving even better!! 🙌 Thanks again for checking them out and for your kind words!!

Thank you for watching! Yeah the structure of the MLS is very different from the other leagues around the world!!

@@JustinLearnsThings true. Closest thing I can remember is international rugby, which has closed shops in some tournaments.

Yeah Definitely!

@@JustinLearnsThings nice

Yeah the sac republic fan base seems great! I remember that great USL run they had a few years ago… their stadium was bumping!

Thanks so much! Really glad you liked it!!

Nice! I like the sound of Atlanta Ruckus!

The other 2 Atlanta sport teams head name of noble birds theme. I think it is cool if you had noble bird theme. Let say like garuda or red wings

A former Atlanta Chiefs player who was from South Africa ended up founding the Kaiser Chiefs club, even using the old Atlanta Chiefs logo as part of theirs.

@@gordieparenteau6555 Although they changed the colors to yellow and black. Glad I’m not the only one who about Atlanta’s forgot sports team!

I think that worked out pretty well, all in all!

Thanks for checking out the video!

HAHA nice cool runnings reference! Yeah all of those names are great ones. I especially love the cascadia team names!

💯 Be your own thing, don't try to copy others

Couldn't disagree more. Mascots and gimmick names are childish North American oddities. I love the idea of European teams being defined by pride for their city, not a bird or "fearsome" animal. FC, Real and City teams are for refreshing to see for North America.

@@Kevin-yh5br Actually, we use both the city name (or other region) *and* a cool nickname in other North American sports leagues. Naming teams only after the city and the sport itself is boring and lame, just like many of the MLS teams have done!

@@Compucles To me nicknames should be organic. If my club had been named Seattle FC people STILL would have called them the Sounders. Because that was organic. Also you instantly know what sport a team called CityName FC plays. In the US, a crowded sports market, that should not be lost on anyone. MLS isn't stupid. They knew they needed to change and stand out and they have and are.

Yeah I'll definitely look into them! Thanks for the comment!

My clubs full name is Club Deportivo Popular Junior Fútbol Club so there are definitely interesting names in South America.

@@jldch26 Some of the most interesting names in South America are the clubs which are named after a Day and Month.

@@sounders7422 that is true. I know in Ecuador I think there's a club called 9 de Octubre so there's a few odd but definitely interesting club names out there.

And lots of South American clubs with Universidad I’ve never looked into it but I assume they were started at the local university?

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That’s a really good and interesting point that the collegiate sports are essentially giant multi sport sporting clubs!! Thanks for the context and great comment!

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Yeah an MLS classic!

There may have been an Orlando Lions team in the 80s, but there was never an NASL team by that name.

Haha tell that to English teams! 😂

Yeah I don’t mind having a bit of both, but do prefer the sounders/Timbers/earthquake, etc, over the Austin fc/Nashville FC… some feel like it works better than others to me like sporting KC or NYCFC, both feel appropriate

Pretty much!

Nice! Makes sense! It’s always a wonder when there’s a ton of fan support and ownership doesn’t listen!

They were Minnesota Thunder first, then NSC Stars. But yeah that is why the main supporter group is called Dark Clouds.

@@MrMmills81 They should add Thunder to the name

The Thunder played in Minnesota from 1990-2009, mostly in the USL. Even though a huge chunk of the roster and staff turned over from the Thunder to NSC Minnesota and there was no break in between, they are technically two separate entities. Though they feel connected because one basically rolled into the other.

Yes me too! I’m really hoping to get the chance to go to a few games in 2026! Fingers crossed! 🤞

The 1994 World Cup is what lead to MLS being formed. The 2026 World Cup will likely have a similar major impact on the sport in North America where it's being held.

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Glad you enjoyed it! 🙌

Only thing is, it’s not in Los Angeles:/

@@jairosoto3445 Neither were the Old NASL-era New York Cosmos, who played at Giants Stadium in New Jersey back in their heyday.

@@jmal thanks for the random fun fact

Exactly the word "foot" isn't really used in Quebec and nobody wants there identity to be diminished like this badge did. A snowflake isn,t something unique and dosen't represent the unicity of Montreal. Put the Jacques Cartier Bridge on the badge, the Olympic Stadium, the Lys, The Montreal Logo... I was down with changing the badge, but not for this minimalistic empty grey snowflake.

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Haha thanks man! I’m actually a sporting KC fan! But the city of Vancouver has a special place in my heart for sure! The three cascadia teams have so much history compared to the age of the league! I’m just a big fan of expanding American soccer fandom! Thanks again for watching! 🙌

Glory to Columbus

I’d love to see that! I bet they never will though because of the money the teams would lose getting relegated! I doubt any of the owners would vote for that!

Yeah, so you pay 250 million or so to make a stadium and you pay another 250 million to buy an MLS team only to end up playing in a college stadium with 2500 seats because you got relegated. Brilliant idea. That's half a billion dollars down the drain. You guys are geniuses.

@Thebossman It is "football" being played in MLS. You just want same rules that work in countries where its the biggest sport but here its not the biggest sport. It's got other old and huge leagues to contend with. You are just not thinking it through.

@Thebossman Because that process takes decades to build and we don't have your sweet time, that's why. Most of your top euro teams have been sold to foreigners who work it strictly as a business. Don't give me that purist crap. We'll do it as we see fit. We know the landscape here, you dont.

@Thebossman people will take MLS seriously as it grows and establishes itself and wins. The stupid relegation has zero to do with that. No other USA league succeeds or busts on relegation. You are just a creature of habit. Snap out of it. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

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That's a great idea! Thank you!

or usl

Thanks for the comment and thanks for checking out the video! I agree NY Cosmos is a great name!

NY Cosmos are "on hiatus" having last played in 3rd tier league NISA a few years ago. Tampa Bay Rowdies exist in USL.

And by the way, clubs here are usualy named after a City or City Quarter with Sporting (Desportivo) or FC or something like that. There are no Earthquakes, Tornados, Thunders or things like that :D :D Sometimes it feels that American football clubs need to have a name like a super-hero movie title :)

Haha yeah it does almost have a super hero feel to it lol

Definitely will be soon!!

@@JustinLearnsThings homie did it!!! Go Bolts

😎 haha thanks for checking it out!

Just posted the video today!

Atlanta Phoenix was a big one

Haha thanks for the rant! I enjoyed it! 😂

Yeah I like the unique names too! Sounders, Timbers, galaxy… something very MLS about names like that and I dig it!

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@@JustinLearnsThingsfr

I like both those suggestions!! Thanks for watching!

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Yeah, it definitely makes sense historically! So many things with names seem to lose their meeting after time, but had actual purpose like 100 years ago lol

That isn't true, Newton Heath LYR FC was renamed to Manchester United FC without merging with any club to try and represent a United city of Manchester and to compete with the already renamed Manchester City FC, they copied the name from Sheffield United and Newcastle United, Sheffield United was founded by a cricket club of the same name which is the first recorded English sports club to use the United name meanwhile Newcastle United was formed from the merger of Newcastle East End FC with Newcastle West End FC and to my knowledge is the only major club that uses United to signify the merger of two clubs into one as opposed to it signifying a United city or area.

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Fr man the names are so bland

Indeed

Yeah that’d be great I’ll put it on the list!

Haha fair comment! Thanks for watching through it!

@@JustinLearnsThings Sorry I meant no disrespect. lol I was watching this at like 1am with headphones on. I got to like 20 min and the loop was the only thing I could hear. haha. Seriously though great thorough job on the content. I've been an MLS fan since the beginning but had no idea about the history of most teams besides LA Galaxy.

Looks like you found the MLS video! Hope you liked it!!

So interesting how things worked in the early days of the league! It’d be crazy for an owner to own two teams and trade with himself today lol

@@JustinLearnsThings For the first decade some ownership groups owned multiple teams; besides the Anschutz example, Lamar Hunt (the Kansas City Chiefs owner) owned the KC, Columbus and Dallas teams. That dissipated when the league stabilized and added more teams and owners.

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ToMAYto, ToMAHto

​@@MarloSoBalJrFair enough

You sir, are a genius!