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MLS & NWSL were subsidized for years - giving them a built in advantage over USL

MLS & NWSL were subsidized for years - giving them a built in advantage over USL

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Kartik Krishnaiyer
Feb 26, 2024
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Recently MLS fans and some media members have taken to criticizing USL as a league propped up by MLS via its investment in reserve squads that played in the USL league structure.

As someone who worked in the NASL, I’m well aware of this, because it was effectively an effort by MLS to put NASL out of business which they were successful at doing. Using US…

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