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Soccer is massive in the USA
MLS is not massive in the USA
🇺🇸 is a world class market for soccer & its people go bonkers for authentic club soccer every year.
USA soccer is drastically held back by the U.S. Soccer Federation/MLS closed system.
#ProRelforUSA
#FIFACWC #USMNT
MLS is not massive in the USA
🇺🇸 is a world class market for soccer & its people go bonkers for authentic club soccer every year.
USA soccer is drastically held back by the U.S. Soccer Federation/MLS closed system.
#ProRelforUSA
#FIFACWC #USMNT
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Division 4 players in USA soccer are unpaid because of no promotion/relegation in the USA soccer ecosystem.
We can change that.
#ProRelforUSA
We can change that.
#ProRelforUSA
Arsenal was knocked out of the EFL Cup by Fleetwood Town, a fourth-tier club currently sitting 18th in its league.
Arsenal’s roster: $1.5 billion
Fleetwood Town’s roster: $3 million
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This is what happens when you have promotion/relegation inside of just one league instead of an entire pyramid (from division 1 all the way down to the grassroots level).
#ProRelforUSA
#ProRelforUSA
Two USL League One clubs — Westchester SC and Corpus Christi FC — have folded, sources tell @Backheeled.
@league1updater had detail earlier this week.
10 different USL clubs have now either folded or gone on hiatus since 2023.
More ⤵️
backheeled.com/sources-usl-le…
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
A new look. A shared ambition. One United Soccer League.
Rooted in communities across the country. Connected by our love of the game. United by the belief that soccer belongs to everyone.
United for Soccer.
Launching January 2027.
Discover more: uslsoccer.com/brand
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PROMOTION/RELEGATION SET TO ARRIVE IN AMERICAN SOCCER IN 2028 🇺🇸📈
USL has unveiled new branding as it prepares to introduce promotion and relegation across three men’s professional divisions:
▫️ USL Premier — Division One
▫️ USL Championship — Division Two
▫️ USL League One — ould earn promotion, or face relegation, based on their results on the field.
The new look launches in January 2027, with USL Premier and the promotion/relegation system planned for 2028.
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
We are a soccer loving nation that doesn’t care for our own top flight.
And @ussoccer catering to MLS is directly to blame.
#ProRelForUSA
And @ussoccer catering to MLS is directly to blame.
#ProRelForUSA
Pretty huge spike in Peacock sign-ups during the World Cup. Still a little below the sign-ups during the Super Bowl, but it’s very impressive to look back at just how huge the World Cup was in the U.S. — especially when Peacock only had Spanish-language coverage:
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A new look. A shared ambition. One United Soccer League.
Rooted in communities across the country. Connected by our love of the game. United by the belief that soccer belongs to everyone.
United for Soccer.
Launching January 2027.
Discover more: uslsoccer.com/brand
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The @HoustonDynamo have a #TexasDerby match against FC Dallas, @brianching is being honored in the Ring of Honor, and a win can clinch a playoff spot.
Three compelling reasons to get fans into @ShellEnergyStdm.
So here’s my question: if a game like this can’t sell out, what eeping fans away?
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
If college football embraces #ProRelForUSA before American soccer - American soccer only has itself to blame.
Again.
Again.
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
Should MLS and USL combine and create a fully-open promotion/relegation system from division 1 down to the grassroots/amateur level?
ANYONE can start a club at the base of the USA soccer pyramid and win promotion up to division 1 through their play on the field.
#ProRelforUSA
ANYONE can start a club at the base of the USA soccer pyramid and win promotion up to division 1 through their play on the field.
#ProRelforUSA
Time to make some bold moves. Collaborate with USL, create a promotion and relegation system.
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
Dear World:
If you’d like to protect the game, get behind the FIFA candidate fully committed to merit based promotion/relegation.
None of the candidates I’ve seen floated have that conviction.
If you’d like to protect the game, get behind the FIFA candidate fully committed to merit based promotion/relegation.
None of the candidates I’ve seen floated have that conviction.
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
Keep in mind that this is in USA soccer's lower divisions beneath the glass ceiling of a closed division 1.
USA soccer is ready for promotion/relegation.
#ProRelforUSA
USA soccer is ready for promotion/relegation.
#ProRelforUSA
USL Championship Week 31 Attendance:
New Mexico United: 8,958
Sacramento Republic: 8,407
Tampa Bay Rowdies: 7,012
Switchbacks FC: 6,797
Detroit City FC: 6,575
Orange County SC: 6,500
Lexington SC: 4,677
Rhode Island FC: 6,463
TUL: 4,695
FC Tulsa: 4,610
Loudoun United: 2,479
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Ben Fast ⚽️ 🇺🇸 retweeted
You don’t hear “developed in La Liga”, “La Liga 3”, and “La Liga Youth”.
That’s because in legitimate football, clubs are the fundamental entity.
In the US, one single entity owns all the teams and, with that monopoly power, puppeteers the Federation.
Of course *all the domestic players are going to come from the monopoly.
That’s not an accomplishment.
That’s a priori going to be the case.
That’s because in legitimate football, clubs are the fundamental entity.
In the US, one single entity owns all the teams and, with that monopoly power, puppeteers the Federation.
Of course *all the domestic players are going to come from the monopoly.
That’s not an accomplishment.
That’s a priori going to be the case.
Developed in @MLS, @MLSNEXTPRO, @MLSNEXT ⚽️
In the @USMNT's October window, 21 of the 28 players have ties to Major League Soccer's ecosystem.
📰 ussoc.cr/9a3085
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Keep in mind that this is in USA soccer's lower divisions beneath the glass ceiling of a closed division 1.
USA soccer is ready for promotion/relegation.
#ProRelforUSA
USA soccer is ready for promotion/relegation.
#ProRelforUSA
USL Championship Week 31 Attendance:
New Mexico United: 8,958
Sacramento Republic: 8,407
Tampa Bay Rowdies: 7,012
Switchbacks FC: 6,797
Detroit City FC: 6,575
Orange County SC: 6,500
Lexington SC: 4,677
Rhode Island FC: 6,463
TUL: 4,695
FC Tulsa: 4,610
Loudoun United: 2,479
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