But to survive at the lowest level of minor league soccer, they needed to stop losing money.
The 2012 season was the second year for the Women's League Soccer.
I'm not afraid of competing," he said, when asked how major league soccer would fare against other local pro sports.
The 2011 season is the inaugural year of Women's League Soccer.
For Major League Soccer to succeed, everyone agrees, most of the national team players must be signed to contracts.
Second, more players are getting big-time experience both in European leagues and Major League Soccer.
It is lumped with Major League Soccer, somewhere in the nether world of sports.
The highest level of football in the United States is Major League Soccer.
McKellar has retired after an incredible run of 17 clubs in 20 years in league soccer - on both sides of the border.
If corporate America's lessons about the star system are to be believed, the task could be even more difficult than Major League Soccer expects.