High-ranking officials of Pachuca, Mexico’s oldest professional soccer club, might announce today whether they picked the Valley as the home of their first expansion team in the United States. Pachuca’s officials are meeting with the mayors of Mesa and Tolleson and probably Gov. Janet Napolitano today to discuss bringing the Valley its first professional outdoor soccer team, a United Soccer Leagues First Division club.

Pachuca was interested in joining MLS, but the organization’s leaders now believe it’s more feasible to join the USL first, Starky said. Pachuca’s ambitious plan is to eventually join MLS, build an indoor, soccer-specific facility in the Valley – if the organization docks here – and build a youth soccer academy that mirrors the efforts of Pachuca’s academy in Mexico. Pachuca officials might make an official announcement at about 7 tonight at Pepi’s Pizza on 7227 S. Central Ave., where Pachuca officials will discuss their plans with a local soccer fan group, MLS Phoenix Rising.

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