New York is a city where sport never sleeps. Awaiting the hockey or basketball results from a late night in Madison Square Garden in the heart of Manhattan or Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, local papers prepare the next day’s first editions’ back pages. These are read bleary-eyed before a baseball matinee at Yankee Stadium (NY Yankees) in the Bronx or Citi Field (NY Mets) in Queens begins the process again.
The clamour for sporting narrative only increases during the NFL season as the Jets and Giants take to the field across the Hudson River in New Jersey.
It’s a sporting melting pot of a city where success is demanded but in recent years rarely achieved. It’s a city that boasts two teams in each of the four major American leagues – basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball. But what about soccer?
On the face of it, soccer in the United States is relatively young. The 1994 World Cup led to the birth of a new professional league – Major League Soccer (MLS) – in 1996, which was the most
