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Real Salt Lake
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 Utah’s
professional sports landscape changed forever in 2005 with the historic
announcement that Salt Lake City is the nine-year-old Major League
Soccer’s 12th team, becoming the second major league sports
organization in state history (the Utah Jazz being the first). The
team currently plays its home games at the University of Utah's
Rice-Eccles Stadium. A 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium was recently
approved for the suburb of Sandy, to be completed in time for the
2007 season.
The team name has nothing to do with the English word "real;"
real in Spanish signifies "royal," and is bestowed on
a number of clubs that play in Spain's First Division by the Spanish
crown. The Salt Lake City club's owner, Dave Checketts, desired
to attach his team to a successful soccer club, Real Madrid, as
well as to develop a brand that clearly connoted 'soccer', leading
to the choice of name.
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