After seven long years waiting for NASL’s antitrust area against US football and MLS to go to trial, a judgment was reached earlier this week in favor of USSF and Major League Soccer. As my good friend Kartik Krishnaiyer wrote this week, “The complexity of business issues that affect football in the lower division in the US is hard enough to explain to football fans in this country for many years, so I would not expect a jury to do so Get it in just a few short weeks. “
While football fans who want reforms in the United States may have been disappointed with the jury’s judgment, NASL is likely to appeal the decision. Nasl -adorable Jeff Kessler told Front Office Sport“We have great respect for the jury process, but some basic legal errors were made that prevented the lawyers from obtaining important evidence or being instructed about the right legal standards and claims. Accordingly, our client expects to appeal. “
Us football issues bizarre statements
Certainly, Nasl has made a catalog of mistakes during its existence as well as during his case against us football and MLS. Nasl is no angel in any way. But I have to raise the issue of the US football association in its statement after the decision.
In particular, the point that US football has stated that “this decision validates US football’s commitment to promoting a broad and healthy ecosystem of professional football leagues over all divisions” struck a nerve with me.
Since both Krishnaiyer and I have argued many times before, US football has been an absent landlord when it comes to regulating the men’s football league in the United States.
Without any shadow of doubt, the United States does not have a healthy ecosystem of professional football leagues. Certainly it has a very healthy Division I MLS. Everything during that, however, is a chaotic mess as a result of the United States not creating a pyramid, as well as its dislike to seem to do something to put pressure on MLS.
For us football to describe us football as a “healthy ecosystem of professional football leagues over all divisions” is laughing. After all, the United States has the worst record of football clubs that go out of existence. From 1992 to the present, more than 150 men’s and women’s professional football teams have expired.
When MLS announced that it ended 2024 US Open Cup, its decision offered the Pro League standards from the US Soccer that requires Division I leagues to play in the US Open Cup.
Instead of us football discipline MLS, the American football association bended on MLS and agreed on a compromise that enabled selected Major League Soccer team to play spare pages in the competition.
In what world does US football seriously believe that its ecosystem is healthy?
US Football Nasl mood doesn’t change anything
After the compromise was reached until 2024 US Open Cup, which was a lot for Major League Soccer, MLS has once again stumbled us football by announcing that it will only send some of its teams to play in the competition in 2025.
Who respected US football expert Nick Webster wrote this week, “MLS is Piper who calls the melody, and US football is the organization that dances.”
To put it in a different way, when MLS says Jump, says US football how high?
Whether NASL appeals against this week’s decision or not, it does not change the fact that US football seems more interested in its national team than it is in the professional club game. Instead of applauding its winnings in the NASL atmosphere, it should be an alarm clock for us football that it needs to structure its professional leagues in a way that benefits the sport as a whole.
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