Major League Soccer has seen exponential growth in metric after metric over the last decade. From attendance to worldwide exposure to credibility in each market.
On Saturday, MLS Commissioner Don Garber visited Rio Tinto Stadium for Real Salt Lake’s season-opening tilt with Toronto FC and spoke glowingly of RSL’s role in that transformation from a league seeking stability to the flourishing league that we see today.
Speaking with RSL broadcast analyst and member of the inaugural team that took the field in 2005 Brian Dunseth, Garber harkened back to the early conversations about bringing MLS to Salt Lake City – still the league’s smallest market – and how the Wasatch Front has proven time and time again to be a market that can serve as a blueprint to other aspiring MLS markets around the country.