Continuing our coverage of the United States Soccer Federation’s decision to sanction neither of the NASL nor USL as a second division soccer league in the United States, I reconvened out round-table: Inside Minnesota Soccer’s Brian Quarstad, Pasion Naranja’s Kristian Vázquez, and The Kartik Report and SPA’s Kartik Krishnaiyer.
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Great discussion. I think the leagues have to come together for this year only for the purposes of sanctioning. That is the implication of USSF’s announcement for me. It will be interesting what the title of the league will be.
On the other hand, if USL is smart, they will collapse USL 1 into USL 2 and allow NASL to run with D2. They have 3 committed teams for one year; after that, USL 1 is done. NASL may also just run with an unsanctioned league. Don’t count that out.
Hi Wayne:
That would be the ideal solution, but one of the things I brought up in another of these podcasts: the USSF seems to be prescribing solutions that would motivate soccer leagues.
They are threatening both organizations, threatening to take away their soccer. The problem is that the USL is more of a business model, the USL-1 being just a subdivision. The USL does not have the same motivations as, say, the NASL.
I think the USL has come to grips with the idea that they will not have USL-1 next year, are looking for a form of compensation (or a reason to back down). As such, I don’t think the USSF’s threats carry any weight. The USL (or, more readily, USL-1) has no soccer to take away.
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