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For the 2011 Major League Soccer season - the top-league in USA/Canada - the Portland Timbers have returned. The Timbers played in the old NASL of the 1970-80's until that league died from a disease called Cosmo-itis. They played before huge crowds and really popularized the sport here in the Portland metropolitan area. Several of the old Timbers players went on to careers as local college coachs - Clive Charles was the best known. There were several attempts at maintaining the Timbers in the minor league world of soccer in the US in succeeding years and the fanbase never disappeared. In fact, the fan base was waiting to be reignited and that has truly happened again with the new MLS franchise. The team owner, Merritt Paulsen, bought the team because it happened to share the local stadium with the local minor league baseball team, the Portland Beavers. Maybe, Paulsen was hoping to...




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