There already is another level it just doesn’t have relegation. The other part is because there will be people rooting against success let the market decide where it can succeed. Right now MLS is trying to choose where soccer can be successful. They should just let the market decide where it can be successful. Maybe that means soccer is dominated by small market teams that they are the only game in town.
Just having other levels without possible access to MLS doesn’t help fan/population engagement in my population. If I lived in a town that had a USL team I probably wouldn’t care much. Glorified friendly matches is what their games would feel like to me.
It’s what I said. It will never happen for the same reasons you have in your post. In my humble opinion having “real” teams in multiple locations across the US would drive engagement and potentially help grow the sport at an even better pace, but not worth putting too much energy into the topic as we agree it is very unlikely to ever happen.
That is the point though. They need to make it have access by implementing the promotion and relegation.
They were really poor. Poor technique, no power and no strategy. You see that the goalkeeper liked to dive on his right and 3 out of 4 kickers aimed to his right.
Agreed. Announcers saying the teams were playing it safe just to get to PKs and I'm like "**** that!". I would rather commit numbers to getting that go ahead goal. If I lose in OT because of it, so be it. At least I would feel I was more in control of my own fate.
