Major League Soccer (MLS), a North American professional soccer league of the highest level of soccer competition, announced on May 18 that the city of San Diego has been handed a franchise to have the 30th MLS team. This exciting news made the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, a tribe (部落) near San Diego, the first Native American tribe to have an ownership stake (股份) in an MLS club. This brings connection and understanding to MLS, according to MLS Commissioner Don Garber.