Longtime Timbers Army regular, Jeremy Wright, argues in the British newspaper The Guardian, that Portland is The Best Football City in America.
Portland, Oregon is a different type of city. It’s a national and international model for urban planning, public transit and sustainability. City leaders have never shied away from making visionary choices that have created Portland’s much vaunted liveability, and now they face another such transformational opportunity: Do they want to help bring a second major league sports franchise to Portland in the form of Major League Soccer?
The answer should be an easy yes.
The commentary is a response to another recent Guardian article about Timbers owner Merritt Paulson’s efforts to bring Major League Soccer to Portland by Jules Boykoff and David Zirin, who argue that it is a bad idea. Jeremy persuasively counters each of the three main points of the previous article, and also makes a convincing argument that Portland is not your typical American city, especially when it comes to soccer.
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