New USL team for SF.

Minor league team will play in San FranciscoKezar Stadium in San Francisco will be the home of a minor league franchise set to begin play in April. The yet-to-be-named team, owned by Spanish second-division club Deportivo Alaves, will be an expansion franchise in the United Soccer Leagues' first division, one rung below Major League Soccer in the American soccer hierarchy.

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