Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: The 2012 D.C. United is the seventeenth season for D.C. United playing in Major League Soccer .
A:
The 2012 D.C. United season was the club 's seventeenth season of existence , and their seventeenth consecutive season of playing in Major League Soccer , the top division of American soccer .