“We all wanted to be Johan Cruyff.” Rongen would enjoy a ... A year later, after a Diplomats defeat against the New York Cosmos, Cruyff taught Rongen another lesson. “I go into a halfway ...

That meant no Philadelphia Atoms, Pelé‘s New York Cosmos, or Johan Cruyff’s Washington Diplomats. MLS played without too many complaints from its start in 1996 until 2023. Then, ...