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Interested in the debate about club names here in the USA. I would say this as a Scot but give me organic, genuine evolution every day of the week. My home city club was founded as Aberdeen FC in 1903. “The Dons” is the nickname but it wasn’t a marketing ploy, it just evolved.
Of course it’s slightly different in the US as teams don’t begin life in the lowest echelons & work their way up. They are created & immediately thrust into the top tier spotlight making it harder for them to evolve in the way we Scots for example see football evolution.
As someone who was involved in early MLS, interesting to note how styles have changed. Original clubs were not FCs but tended towards American style - the Revolution, the Crew, the Clash, the Wiz (!), the Burn.
I can say that at that time, MLS GMs and league officials didn’t want very much to do with British football & its traditions in terms of nomenclature. They wanted what they saw as an American feel. Interesting that it has since swayed in a different direction.
Rambling thread (as usual) but it’s a debate that doesn’t take place outside the USA as clubs generally have their identity decided for them by fans over a number of years, rather than a club having to immediately forge its own identity a la MLS.
