Douglas George Logan y Gonzales de Mendoza (born 1943) is an American sports executive. He was the inaugural commissioner of

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...

, and later was the CEO of

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Early life

Logan was born in New Jersey to an American father and Cuban mother. He was studying civil engineering at Manhattan College when he was drafted into the military in 1964. He served with the

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and was decorated with two Bronze Stars. He later studied at the University of Baltimore Law School, graduating in 1972.

Career

Early career

From 1986 to 1993, Logan was a senior vice president of Ogden Entertainment Services. He later became president and chief executive officer of Mexican entertainment company OCESA. Under his management, the

Mexico Aztecas The Mexico Aztecas (or ''Mexico City Aztecs'', ''Aztecas de México'') were a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). Created as an experiment in fielding a team outside the United States and Canada, it played ...

of the

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became the first American professional sports franchise based in Mexico. The Aztecas relocated to San Diego and became the Wildcards for the 1996 season before folding.

MLS Commissioner

In 1995, Logan was named the first commissioner of

, working in that capacity through 1999. Sports Business Daily named Logan and the MLS staff Sports Industrialists of the Year for 1996. During Logan's last year at MLS, the league lost $34 million. MLS was reported to have lost $250 million in its first five years under Logan.

Later career

In 1999, Logan formed the sports consulting firm Empresario. In 2001, he was hired as a consultant in the creation of a professional

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, structuring the new league as a "single entity" system. In 2008, Logan was appointed the CEO of

. In September 2010, the USATF Board announced it had fired Logan. Logan later filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination which was ultimately settled.

References

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