” Rooney returned in 2012 and went right back to work in the family business, becoming a fixture at the team’s headquarters well into his 80s. o on Sunday, on 16 April 1967, professional soccer took its first bold steps in the US as the National Professional Soccer League made its debut. And at 37, he was probably not going to get a better opportunity than the one he found himself with on the last day of the Masters. Detroit, Miami, Charlotte and Dallas made the playoffs last season, and didn’t qualify this season.