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The Eastern Professional Soccer League better known as the Eastern Soccer League (ESL) was a U.S. soccer league which existed for only a season and a half in 1928 and 1929. Born of the internecine strife between U.S. soccer organizations known as the “Soccer War” the ESL was created by the United States Football Association as a counter to the professional American Soccer League which was contesting USFA control of professional soccer in the U.S.