Welcome to the Starting XI, The Athletic’s weekly series that examines some of the current soccer news around MLS, CPL as well as the men’s and women’s national teams.



1. On Friday the Canadian Premier League officially welcomed their third team, the Halifax-based HFX Wanderers.



Wanderers President Derek Martin told The Athletic that everyone involved at Sports & Entertainment Atlantic, the club’s ownership group, was hesitant to go with the Wanderers name out of the gate because it seemed so obvious. But after meeting with groups in the Halifax soccer community, Martin determined that “no matter what else we tried, nothing fit like the Wanderers name.”



The Wanderers Amateur Athletic Club was formed in 1882 and was based at the same downtown Wanderers Grounds that the CPL club will play at. Martin hopes the name will make locals proud, given its ties to the history of Halifax, and the...