NEW YORK - Major League Soccer (MLS) announced, today, a new franchise in the league that will be located on the doomsday asteroid currently hurtling towards the world as a whole.

“We’ve been working with the Asteroid for some time,” stated President of Major League Soccer Mark Abbot. “And we are happy to announce that AC 163373 (2002 PZ39) United will be the 31st team in Major League Soccer.”

According to microbial sources on 163373 (2002 PZ39), the final hurdle was the composition of public financing for a stadium on the constantly hurdling piece of space rock.

“There is significant concern among the $#yyyd and the **see3333333 communities that the public financing will take away from our host commitment to the spores in our area. However, our asteroid president Jaque “W^^^^dfep” Roquefort announced today that he felt confident that there was enough money in the spore budget to build the stadium instead of the inter-dimensional hospital we’ve been planning upon for the last 200 centuries.”

League sources are reportedly thrilled as one insider stated, “How many teams does the English Premier League have on an asteroid… Huh? MLS.. LEAGUE OF CHOICE”

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as the stadium construction stops due to a problem with the location of the stadium in the middle of a gentrifying subdivision of bacterial growth.