30.09.2015 21:53 h

US Soccer plans to reopen Hall of Fame in Dallas

Major League Soccer's FC Dallas and the US Soccer Federation revealed Wednesday they plan to move the National Soccer Hall of Fame Museum to Texas.

Full details about the project will be unveiled on October 14, a statement from the federation said, after final approval for the museum project was granted Tuesday night.

The Frisco (Texas) Independent School District voted to approve an amendment to the stadium lease deal between the city and the stadium owners giving the last of four approvals needed to advance to project.

The vote capped a year-long effort to upgrade the MLS team's decade-old stadium in suburban Frisco and construct a facility there to house the National Soccer Hall of Fame Museum.

The National Soccer Hall of Fame Museum had been established at Oneonta, New York, in 1999 but closed after more than 10 years with more than 80,000 items sent to storage facilities in North Carolina.

Nearly 300 people have been elected to the Hall of Fame for contributions to the growth of football in America, with elections and inductions annually even with the display relegated to storage facilities.

Among the items in the Hall of Fame collection is a football said to be the world's oldest, the 1991 and 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup trophies won by American squads, archives from the 1994 World Cup staged in US cities and the North American Soccer League, the first top-level US league in which Pele played for the New York Cosmos and materials from US squads in World Cup competitions.