English Through Football Podcast – MLS 2020: This weekend sees the start of the 2020 Major League Soccer season – the 25th season – so we thought we’d take a look at how MLS is doing at 25. We also look ahead to the upcoming season and look at the favourites and the dark horses and of course some of the language used to describe Major League Soccer 2020.

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: MLS 2020

Introduction

DF: Hello everybody, my name is Damian and you are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast. On this extra podcast we take a look at the 2020 Major League Soccer season which has just kicked off – the 25th year of the league – and we look at some of the highlights from the past quarter of a century, a preview of the upcoming 2020 season and pick out a favourite and a dark horse for the title at the end of the season.

Related Links

* Wikipedia entry for MLS

* Forum discussion on US/UK football language

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