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All the single-table fanatics who insist that Major League Soccer is not a genuine “football” competition because of its two conference setup are going to have to wait a little longer, according to commissioner Don Garber, who confirmed Tuesday that the league’s 18 teams will continue to be divided into East and West when Portland and Vancouver come aboard next season.
There had been some speculation that the addition of two teams West Coast teams, and the league’s growing sympathy for those who pine for a “traditional” structure, might force a rethink. It hasn’t.
“We will retain a conference system and we will move 2 teams from the West to East, and we’ll announce those changes towards the end of the year,” Garber wrote in an online chat with USA Today ahead of Wednesday’s All-Star Game in Houston.
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