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North American Soccer League commissioner Bill Peterson bubbled with enthusiasm following a gathering of league owners in Ottawa Wednesday.

The league, one level down from Major League Soccer, boasts 10 teams, including the first year Ottawa Fury FC. And there is considerable growth talk in the air — on both sides of the border. Teams in Oklahoma City and Jacksonville, Florida, are scheduled to join the league next season and with Virginia following the year after. Peterson suggests the league will have 18-20 teams by 2018.

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On that longer list are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Hartford south of the border and more than one Canadian club to join Ottawa and FC Edmonton. He remains secretive on the cities but one hot tip is Hamilton.

Many question whether quality will suffer from rapid expansion. But Peterson believes that the international talent pool is big enough to handle more teams. Right now the league includes players from 44 countries, including 23 from the Caribbean. The Fury have just signed a player from Jamaica. O’Brian Woodbine is a defender who was most recently with the New England Revolution of MLS. Before joining the Revs, he had play professionally in his native Jamaica, the U.S. and Finland.