Video Q&A: Another stadium for Major League Soccer in Minnesota?
The tantalizing news that Major League Soccer is going to grow by 20 percent in the next eight years has some observers, like Fox Sports North, speculating about a futbol team in the new Vikings stadium.
But soccer aficionados -- even some who lobbied the hardest to accommodate the beautiful game in the new Vikings stadium -- are saying now that soccer's fortunes now lie elsewhere -- possibly with another new stadium in the Twin Cities.
Here's a conversation with Wes Burdine about the Vikings' future as a soccer franchisee. Burdine is one of the founders of MLS4MN, and a soccer blogger at dunordfutbol.com.
Below is what the "pitch" would look like, as the Vikings (and an amazingly large amount of fans) are thinking about soccer.
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