Minnesota United FC is an American professional soccer club based in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area that plays in the Western Conference of Major League Soccer.
 The club began play in 2017 as the league's 22nd club, and replaced the North American Soccer League (NASL) franchise of the same name.
ESPN Major League Soccer is a promotion of Major League Soccer on ESPN and ESPN2, with simulcasts on ESPNHD and ESPN2HD.
 Major League Soccer on ESPN2 debuted in 1996, the league's first season, and is guaranteed to stay on the network till at least 2022.
 From 1996 to 2006, the weekly soccer match on ESPN2 was called "MLS Soccer Saturday", but in the new contract, that was replaced by "MLS Primetime Thursday".
 For the 2009 season and beyond, the Thursday telecast was replaced by a variety of primtime games on Wednesdays through Saturdays.
 Beginning in 2009, as part of ESPN's far-reaching strategy of moving sports programming to ESPN, all matches - including MLS Cup - are now aired on either ESPN or ESPN2.
The 1997 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the second Major League Soccer All-Star Game, a soccer match involving all-stars from Major League Soccer.
 Teams of the best players from each conference played against each other at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, on July 9, 1997.
 The MLS All-Stars East won the game 5–4, with goals from MVP Carlos Valderrama, Giuseppe Galderisi, Robert Warzycha, Richie Williams and Brian McBride.
 Dante Washington, Jorge Campos, Digital Takawira and Cobi Jones scored for the MLS All-Stars West.
 Arturo Angeles refereed the game, which was attended by 24,816 spectators.
Major League Soccer owners own a share in the league and have the right to operate a team.
 Major League Soccer operates under a single-entity structure in which teams and player contracts are centrally owned by the league.
 Each Major League Soccer team has an investor-operator that is a shareholder in the league.
 In order to control costs, the league shares revenues and holds players contracts instead of players contracting with individual teams.
Major League Soccer is the premier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada.
 As of 2016, it consists of 20 teams: 17 in the United States and 3 in Canada.
 The league has played since 1996.
 Each year, it plays a league which determines entry into the playoffs.
 The league is divided into two conferences, the Eastern Conference and Western Conference.
 In 2000 and 2001, there was also a Central Conference.
 The team with the overall best regular-season record is awarded the MLS Supporters' Shield, one of three major domestic trophies in North American soccer (the others being the national championships—the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup or the Canadian Championship—and the primary trophy: the MLS Cup league championship).
 In 2010 and 2011, the league played as a double round robin, with each team playing each other team one home and away—creating a balanced schedule.
 With a prime number of teams beginning in 2012, the league has moved to an unbalanced schedule weighted towards a team's respective conference.
The 2002 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the 7th Major League Soccer All-Star Game, played on August 3, 2002 at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C..
 Major League Soccer, looking to capitalize on the success of the United States at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, invited the US national team to compete against the MLS All-Stars.
 Bruce Arena assembled a roster of the national team's most prominent domestic players in the last decade, while then-San Jose Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop formed an All-Star team of the top talent among the league's remaining players.
Marc Dos Santos (born May 26, 1977) is a Canadian soccer manager with experience in the United Soccer League, North American Soccer League, and Major League Soccer.
 He currently is the manager of the San Francisco Deltas of the North American Soccer League, beginning play in the 2017 season.
 Most recently, he was the manager of the Swope Park Rangers of the United Soccer League, an affiliate of Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer.
 The North American Soccer League Coach of the Year in 2015, Dos Santos led the Ottawa Fury FC to the NASL Championship Final after a first-place finish in the Fall Season.
 Previously, he focused on youth initiatives in Brazil with FC Primeira Camisa (U-20's) and SE Palmeiras (U-15's), culminating with a Copa do Brasil Sub-15 championship and a technical director position with Desportivo Brasil.
 The Montreal native was first hired by the Montreal Impact in January 2007 to lead the club's reserve team, Trois-Rivieres Attak FC, in the Canadian Soccer League.
 After leading the squad to titles in their initial two seasons – first as 2007 Open Canada Cup champions, then as 2008 CSL National Division champions – Dos Santos was added to the Impact's technical staff as an assistant coach in June 2008 and became head coach in May 2009.
 During his tenure, the Impact won the inaugural Canadian Championship in 2008 to claim the Voyageurs Cup and a berth in the 2008-09 CONCACAF Champions League.
 Dos Santos then led Montreal through three different leagues in consecutive campaigns, winning the USL First Division title in 2009 before transitioning into USSF Division 2 in 2010 and the North American Soccer League in 2011.
Seattle Sounders FC is an American soccer club founded in 2008, after the city of Seattle was awarded a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise.
 The club began playing competitive soccer in the 2009 Major League Soccer season.
 It plays its home games at CenturyLink Field, competing in the Western Conference of the MLS.
 The current Sounders FC is the third soccer team from Seattle to bear the "Sounders" nickname.
 The tradition was started by Seattle's North American Soccer League team in 1974, and continued by the city's United Soccer Leagues side, formed in 1994.
 The current Sounders FC is an entity distinct to both of these clubs, and played its first MLS game on March 19, 2009, against the New York Red Bulls.
The 1996 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was the first Major League Soccer All-Star Game, a soccer match involving all-stars from Major League Soccer.
 Teams of the best players from each conference played against each other at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, on July 14, 1996.
 The MLS All-Stars East won the game 3–2, with goals from Tab Ramos, Giovanni Savarese and Steve Pittman while Preki and Jason Kreis scored for the MLS All-Stars West.
 MLS All-Stars East midfielder Carlos Valderrama was named as the game's Most Valuable Player.
 Kevin Stott refereed the game, which was attended by 78,416 spectators.
Abu Danladi (Born October 10, 1995) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Minnesota United of Major League Soccer.

Question: Footballer  Abu Danladi  plays for a team that plays in what Major League Soccer conference?
Answer: Western Conference