The National Soccer Hall of Fame could be getting a home again.
According to a report in the Washington Post, the US Soccer Federation is considering Frisco, Texas, as the new site of the Hall of Fame, which has been without a physical location since the museum in Oneota, N.Y., closed in 2010 because of financial difficulties.
The report indicates that the federation entered into a nine-month exclusive negotiation period with local officials and the Hunt family, which owns FC Dallas.
The Hunt family has been one of the key players in the history of modern American soccer. The trophy for the US Open Cup, the oldest club competition in the country, currently bears the name of the late Lamar Hunt, one of the founding investors of MLS who at one pointed owned FC Dallas, the then-Kansas City Wizards, and the Columbus Crew. In addition to being involved at various points in running those three teams Hunt financed Crew Stadium, which opened in 1999 as the first US soccer-specific stadium in the modern era.
FCD play in Toyota Stadium, also partly-financed by Hunt, located in a multi-field athletic complex in Frisco, a suburb just north of Dallas, where the facility would presumably be built.
USSF officials confirmed in the report that discussions are ongoing but would not comment on the details.
USSF have stored most of the Hall of Fame’s artifacts and memorabilia in North Carolina since the museum’s closing. Hall of Fame inductions have continued annually at various locations.
