We wrote last week about Major League Soccer's efforts to keep the league relevant during the
off season. The league is certainly making an effort in that regard with a couple of
announcements today designed to keep fans interested and media reporting about the league. We'll
start with big national broadcast news for the opening Major League Soccer weekend in 2012.
On Sunday morning if you happen to be in Western Europe the champions of world club football
will be crowned, as the final of the 2011 Club World Cup is played at the International Stadium in
Yokohama between Barcelona, the current champions of Europe, and Santos of Brazil, the current
champions of South America.
Santos are expecting a tough battle for their teen sensation Neymar when he prepare to leaves
the club in 2014. The Campeonato Paulista player of the year 2011 has consistently been linked with
a move to Spain with Barcelona now emerging as his most probable destination.
In fact, reports doing the rounds suggest that the Catalan giants had already struck a
preliminary agreement worth 10 million Euros to sign the star earlier than 2014.
