The Major League Soccer franchise has been an obsession for the San Diego football fans. The dream may still be a long way off but another edition of skilled outdoor soccer may be coming soon and this set position for the MLS found in San Diego. The United Soccer League which is one of the famous skilled leagues in America is looking for ways to put up a development license in San Diego. This is reports according to various sources close to the USL. The upcoming team may begin playing as early as April, 2017. However, the NSL is not yet ready to make known the new team present in San Diego but is willing to make its presence felt in America’s greatest City.

John Griffin who is the President of Communications for the USL said that San Diego is a growing market with a millennial population and a very great interest in football. He added that the USL success foundation is made up of three central doctrines which include; strong local ownership, a striking market and the strategic plan for a football-specific stadium. With the three core values at hand the soccer teams and the league will be headed for long-term success. The first two core beliefs will be easy to fulfill since San Diego has always being among the top markets for World Cup Soccer positioning. It also has a very supportive team of fans. The Tijuana Xolos of Liga MX Club is also a strong supportive fan.

San Diego witnessed the National Premier Soccer League playing earlier in the year. The Albion Pros SC and the North County Battalion are both benefiting from the successful opening seasons on the fields and in the stands. The sticking point may be the third part of this equation. There have been discussions with the University of San Diego to allow the USL play home matches for the start of the start of the season at Torero Stadium. The November 2016 elections is a major focus by the USL league and is also a new Downtown stadium for the San Diego Chargers. However, the USL will only be able to occupy the stadium when Chargers move out of Mission Valley.

The USL may decide not to travel to San Diego due to the stadium obstacle, but if they do come, the MLS will be following soon enough. There are several partnerships with Major League Soccer franchises. The Orlando City is the representation of the potential San Diego Franchise which would follow at a close rate.

On Monday during the final of Algarve Cup, Canada won against 2-1 over Brazil. Shelina Zadorsky scored at the 60th minute, after converting Ashley Lawrence’s corner kick.

Zadorsky said that she was overwhelmed to get the first goal and she thinks that is what boosted her team’s momentum. She also said that it was a perfect ball from Ashley since she was close to the post and she is proud of the whole team for winning the cup.

Seven minutes later as pressure built up from Canadian side, Janine Beckie scored a second goal. While the Brazilian’s struggle to get their defense back on track, Sophie Schmidt passed a ball directly to Beckie, who was able to slot it past the keeper. Beckie said their defensive pressure during the entire game kept their opponents on toes.

In the 89th minute, the lead was cut by half by Brazil but they still could not find an equalizer in the added time.

The Canadian coach John Herdman said, “Since 2012 London Olympics, we have not won anything for a while and beating Brazil in the Pan Am is a hopefully a good sign for us.”

“The girls played well. They deserve it.” He added. “That was a great Brazil team they beat tonight and they have been strong in the tournament and the girls, despite the pressure scored two goals. They proved that team work really goes a long away.”

Kadeisha Buchanan from Canada was named player of the tournament.

For Canadians to Win Algarve Cup, puts them on the frontline to Rio Olympics as they look forward to better their Bronze from London in 2012. This was the first tournament for Canadian women soccer team to qualify for Rio Games byCONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship.

During the tournament, Canada soccer announced that it is going to host two of women’s soccer matches against Brazil in June 4 and June 7 at Toronto’s BMO field and Ottawa’s Td Place respectively.

The football scene has been known to boast of spending the most on the purchase of new football players. Currently the whole world in general is focused on electing the next FIFA president while China is focused on buying the most expensive players for this season. So far it has spent over $300 million on foreign players.

The only players that China could not lay their hands on are the ones in the most expensive teams and those who are in newly signed contracts. Apparently it is rumored that they are spending on players to please the president Xi Jinping.

In the most recent January- February transfer window of 2016, China’s league clubs have spent $366 million. The fee paid for these transfers by China is exceeding that of the English premier league teams by more than $100 million and has quadrupled China’s last year transfer budget.

This spending is also more than the spending of other leagues combined like Italy, Germany, France and Spain. China has really decided to shock us all by going on this new expensive shopping spree. These were the analysis according to Transmarkt.

This is now known as the ‘gold rush’ where most of the world’s top players are rushing to. The most celebrated top players, Ramires-formerly of Chelsea, Jackson Martinez- formerly of Atletico Madrid and Alex Teixeira- formerly of Brazil were the players that cost China the most for them to win their bids.

These players are only rushing to play for China because they will have double the money they were earning yet it is damaging for their career because they will not have stiff competition on the pitch as they did before. Others like Teixeira are being paid about $10 million annually by China yet they never even made it to big teams and games like the English premier league.

European club owners have reason to be concerned because China has the ability to move a whole European league to China. Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s manager said that if China’s intentions were political in their move to buy these players then there was reason to be concerned.

Members of the FIFA’s voting congress will be electing the organization’s next president on Friday, in Zurich. However, out of all the voters, women will only make up less than 1% and this is what soccer fans around the world want a change in.

In a recent survey conducted on soccer fans from all over the world, 64% of respondents want the number of women in key positions increased.

The Anti-corruption organization transparency international, together with the fan group Forza Football conducted a poll in 28 countries, where they surveyed around 25,000 soccer fans.

Most of the respondents in the 28 countries except Russia, believed that FIFA should have more women.

Some of the countries that registered the highest percentage of respondents in favor of the idea include Costa Rica with 83%, Colombia with78%, and Spain with 76%.

Coincidentally, Costa Rica and Spain made their first appearance at the Women’s World cup in 2015 while it was the second consecutive appearance of Colombia into the tournament.

On the other hand, 69% of British and 72% Americans support the idea of adding more women to FIFA’s voting congress that consists of delegates from FIFA’s209 member associations

An increase in the number of women in FIFA’s Executive committee will be voted on by the members on Friday as it is on the broad package of reforms.

Moya Dodd, who is an Australian and one of the few women on the committee came up with a provision that would require women to hold 6 of the 36 executive committee seats.

Dodd said, “This is an unexploited marketfor the world’s most popular game, where half of the world’s population have not really been given a full opportunity to participate. Hence adding more women will be a great step forward and will alsoenhance culture change. “

This will be the second time that Didier Drogba leaves Chelsea but he hopes coming back on a different capacity. His game with Chelsea against Sunderland is his last with the team. He will not be retiring from football but he will be leaving Stamford Bridge in pursuit of his playing career.

He resumed to Chelsea last summer on a year’s deal and during his term, he has assisted in getting the club a 4^th Premier League title. Drogba believes that he needs to play for another more season but this would feel good for him if he played on a different team.

The 37-year old striker said that he has had dialogue with his manager and the board where they agreed to let him leave since it was up to him to enjoy the pitch more as he wishes. He is happy to know that the club wants him back and be part of the future team in Chelsea and he is pleased of the way they came up with the solution.

Previously, Drogba was in West London where he spent eight years from 2004 to 2012. He won 12 trophies and made one of the best scores against Bayern Munich in The Champions league of 2012.

Before he came back for the second time to Chelsea, he was playing in Turkey and China.

In a statement, Chelsea said that they are happy of Drogba’s participation and that they would always be pleased to have him back in Stamford Bridge.

Drogba first played for Chelsea in 2004 where he scored 157 goals in 341 appearances, prior to leaving in the dawn of the club’s Champions League victory. He collected 3 Premier League titles, 4 FA cups and 2 league cups in his first stint in London.

Drogba has played in 39 matched across all kinds of competitions in this term and has scored 7 times and helped his fellow team players in securing a Premier League and League Cup double.

CEO to Chelsea said that Drogba was a legend in Chelsea and that he will always be a part of the family. Ron Gourlay says that he will be leaving to higher grounds and that his big contribution to Chelsea’s success is huge and contributed a lot to the team’s success.