Right around last Tuesday, when I was waiting for submissions to Carnival of Soccer 5, it occurred to me that it was a story in itself. My working assumption became that if I picked up enough contributions, and assuming the general sense of contributions lined up well enough, the data could be fleshed out into a snapshot of the Major League Soccer. That snapshot could serve as a means to communicate the league either to people who don't know quite how to approach American soccer, or to Euro fans, who see Major League Soccer as some lesser league (it is arguably that) with no traditions and rivalries (which it certainly is not).
And that's what happened. So here's the cultural primer to Major League Soccer that grew from Carnival of Soccer 5. Enjoy.
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