MIAMI (Reuters) – For a brief but dazzling spell in the 1970s, New Yorkers fell in love with soccer as Pele and the Cosmos showcased the world’s most popular game in a city long dominated by baseball and American football.

Now Major League Soccer hopes that a new team, called the New York City Football Club and formed by an alliance of English Premier League club Manchester City and baseball’s grandest club the New York Yankees, can not only recapture that excitement but this time, sustain it.

MIAMI (Reuters) – For a brief but dazzling spell in the 1970s, New Yorkers fell in love with soccer as Pele and the Cosmos showcased the world’s most popular game in a city long dominated by baseball and American football.

Now Major League Soccer hopes that a new team, called the New York City Football Club and formed by an alliance of English Premier League club Manchester City and baseball’s grandest club the New York Yankees, can not only recapture that excitement but this time, sustain it.

MIAMI, May 21 (Reuters) – For a brief but dazzling spell in the 1970s, New Yorkers fell in love with soccer as Pele and the Cosmos showcased the world’s most popular game in a city long dominated by baseball and American football.

Now Major League Soccer hopes that a new team, called the New York City Football Club and formed by an alliance of English Premier League club Manchester City and baseball’s grandest club the New York Yankees, can not only recapture that excitement but this time, sustain it.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Manchester City and the New York Yankees have formed a new Major League Soccer team to play in New York City from 2015, the organizations said on Tuesday.

English Premier League club Manchester City, owned by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi, will be the majority partner in New York City Football Club with the Yankees, the biggest name in baseball, an “active member of the ownership group”.

MIAMI, May 21 (Reuters) – Manchester City and the New York Yankees have formed a new Major League Soccer team to play in New York City from 2015, the organizations said on Tuesday.

English Premier League club Manchester City, owned by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi, will be the majority partner in New York City Football Club with the Yankees, the biggest name in baseball, an “active member of the ownership group”.

MIAMI (Reuters) – San Francisco is favored to be named the host city for the 50th Super Bowl when National Football League (NFL) owners vote Tuesday on the site of the 2016 championship game.

The Californian city, home to the NFL’s 49ers, is up against South Florida (Miami) while Houston will compete with the losing bid for the 2017 game, which will also be decided on Tuesday.

MIAMI (Reuters) – David Beckham could return to the United States as owner of a new club and his advisors have already held talks with Major League Soccer.

Beckham announced his retirement from professional soccer on Thursday but has been tight-lipped about his future plans after ending the season with French club Paris St Germain.

MIAMI, May 17 (Reuters) – David Beckham could return to the United States as owner of a new club and his advisors have already held talks with Major League Soccer.

Beckham announced his retirement from professional soccer on Thursday but has been tight-lipped about his future plans after ending the season with French club Paris St Germain.

MIAMI (Reuters) – David Beckham’s impact on soccer always went well beyond his performances on the field and nowhere was that more evident than in the United States where he became the sport’s first household name since Pele.

Beckham’s two Major League Soccer titles are unlikely to feature near the top of his career achievements but he was brought to L.A. Galaxy from Real Madrid in 2007 on a $6 million a year deal for a much bigger task.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Landon Donovan has been left out of the United States squad for next month’s block of World Cup qualifiers, but remains hopeful he can make it to the finals in Brazil next year if the team qualifies.

Donovan, the U.S’s all-time top scorer, was missing from the list of 26 players announced by head coach Juergen Klinsmann on Thursday.