Sporting Lisbon is membership athletics club
by fontoknow (2019-04-04 15:44:00)

In reply to: Disagree Highly. Many teams use foreign-loaned words  posted by spade

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That fields a football team.

Is Sporting KC a multisport athletics club?

Real SLC is dumb.

Houston Dynamo is dumb, but historic.

I disagree and agree with some of those
by spade  (2019-04-04 16:51:32)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Sporting is a loan-word in Portuguese. To me, it doesn't really matter how many teams they have, it's still a loan-word.
Football is a loan-word to refer to Soccer. Just like Clube is a loan word in Spanish as is Sporting. I think more loan-words the better!

Real SLC IS stupid, but only because the king didn't recognize it, not because it's a loan-word. And if the king DOES ever grant it, that would be the coolest team ever.

Dynamo is silly and kinda cool cause it's harkens back. Really interesting to see a railroad city use "Locamotive city". That would be wild, but a lot silly.
We don't have a king in this country so Real SLC
by fontoknow  (2019-04-04 17:05:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

is always stupid.

Sporting is a loan word to refer to a multisport athletic club in in Portugal. To loan it back to an American Soccer club that is not membership based is what is stupid.

Football is only a loan word to the american language ... But in America football is a different sport.

Dynamo is silly because it's Soviet. Or if they are named after the german dynamo teams, it's even sillier since Dynamo teams were all Stasi sponsored.

Using these names is silly because there is an opportunity to do something organic with MLS names. I like team names like the LA Galaxy, Chicago Fire, Colorado Rapids, SJ Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers. This are organic, and mostly track with North American Naming Conventions. If we're going to go with European conventions words like Sporting, and AC having meanings. We shouldn't use them unless those meanings track in the American use case.
OK, I'm just pointing leagues around the world do this
by spade  (2019-04-04 21:29:00)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

First, there are lots of 'sportings' in England so it's not loaned to Portuguese and then loaned back to English.

Australia has a few FCs even though Football there means something totally different from soccer.

I think you just really don't like this and that's fine, but I'm only pointing out this isn't a MLS-only gimmick. Although the gimmick of a 'United' team really should be from a merger of two teams.

And Honduras has a King appointed Real team, so yes King Felipe could appoint (or anoint) Real SL a true Real team if he so desired.