If Tucson wants to keep MLS spring training, changes must occur

FC Tucson isn’t without strong competition in its move to become the spring training hub for Major League Soccer. After training in Tucson earlier this month, the Seattle Sounders traveled to Charleston, S.C., to play in another spring training setting, for the Carolina Challenge Cup, against the Columbus Crew of the MLS. The doubleheader drew 5,000 in a soccer-specific facility built for a USL team. If the impressive Desert Diamond Cup series in Tucson, created by FC Tucson’s Greg Foster and Jon Pearlman, is to continue with its success in the long term, Tucson must consider building a bigger facility, preferably downtown, which could play host to anything from high school sports and state championships to big-league soccer.

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