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As a South American fútbol fan: the <City> <Random GRR word> is very annoying.

Just say “New York Fútbol Club”. See, it breathes already.

Also make way for teams that are just called “Sports Association Firebug” for historically cogent but difficult to parse at first.

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A lot of the MLS teams are like this - Atlanta United, Austin FC, Sporting Kansas City, Toronto FC... It feels a bit clunky and "we wanna look more european" in my mind, but MLS is at least split between US and EU style for names.

There's literally "New York City Football Club" in the MLS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_FC

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