After a unanimous vote Tuesday by the US Soccer Board of Directors, neither the established United Soccer Leagues First Division nor the revived North American Soccer League will be sanctioned as an official Division II professional soccer league for the 2010 season, but both leagues have seven days to work out an interim solution for the upcoming season.
The board made its decision following a recommendation from their Professional League Task Force, who said neither league was able to provide a viable and sustainable operation for 2010 and neither met US Soccer's requirement of having a minimum eight viable teams to be sanctioned as a Division II league.
The decision, at the moment, leaves no second-tier professional soccer league in the US beneath top-tier Major League Soccer. USL1 had been sanctioned by the US Soccer board annually since its inception in 1997.
The board stated, however, it would sanction, on a provisional basis, a merged league for 2010.
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.