According to Brian Quarstad at Inside Minnesota Soccer, the United States Soccer Federation, the Canadian Soccer Association and the Puerto Rican Football Federation are scheduled to meet with the TOA and the USL this Sunday December 6th in New York. The goal of the meeting is obviously to come to some kind of conclusion to all this mess.
Read on here..
Hopefully, this means that at some point this coming week, we will be able to get some kind of news or idea as to what exactly we can expect for the Impact's 2010 season.
1) NASL will be sanctionned? It may seem logical, seeing all the work they seem to be putting into this, trademarks, domain names and hiring PR firms. However, who really knows whats going on behind the scenes..
2) The federations (and by this I mean mostly the USSF) ''force'' the teams back to USL-1, along with some kind of promise by Nurock to give the owners some form of control over the first division.
3) Sort of a mix of scenario 1 and 2, where the ''new'' Northern North American 2nd division is totally independant from USL but plays under their umbrella and pays them a small fee to use the brand, logo and for front office stuff like scheduling and other paper pushing type things.
What do you think?
Either way the season is 4 months away and some kind of a decision has to made soon as season tickets must be sold, schedules made and TV/ Internet streaming must be arranged..
It would suck to have NASL go back after everything it's done so far, which may or may not be a lot depending on how much has actually been done.
ReplyDeleteI really don't think that the teams can go back to USL at this point. A common agreement on the terms of the ''control'' owners would have over the league can't be reached in only one day (unless of course, they have been discussing for some time and we don't know it...)
ReplyDeleteBrian Quarstad has responded to some of the comments made on his latest article. He seems inclined to believing that USSF will force both the TOA and USL to come to a compromise.
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ReplyDeleteHonestly, I hope not..None of the parties involved will be very happy with this outcome, as none will get what they want..I still honestly don't understand why the breakaway teams would not be "allowed" to form their own league, what do they owe to USL? Why millionaire/billionnaire owners have to pay a company to make a schedule for them and to use their logo which has little name recognition among spoprts fans anyway..