L.A. Is Getting Its Third Pro Soccer Team. Will the City Finally Build a Stadium?

Soccer fans living in L.A. have spent a lot of time in the 'burbs. As Jack Nicholson and rest of the Lakers cohort tailgate at the Staples Center downtown, fans of the L.A. Galaxy and Chivas USA soccer clubs have been lumbering out to Carson, California, for much of the past 19 years. In fact, the Galaxy, Major League Soccer's first L.A-based soccer club, has never been based in the city. But the suburban supremacy of professional soccer in southern California may finally come to an end.

The MLS announced yesterday that a new team called the Los Angeles Football Club (or LAFC) will begin play in 2017. The expansion comes after L.A.'s smaller franchise, Chivas USA, which also played in Carson, dissolved after years of poor attendance and criticized ownership. Potential fans are pleading for the new team to break ground on a stadium within L.A. borders.