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Elite Soccer Showcase is an annual event that provides highly referred soccer players from around the world opportunities to earn a professional contract. Players in attendance will consist of recent college graduates, young aspiring professionals and highly referred players from around the world that are free from contract. In addition to the ...

'Orlando will welcome a new professional soccer franchise, the Austin Aztex, in April.  The Austin Aztex announced their relocation to the City Beautiful Oct. 25 and said it will play under the name Orlando City Soccer Club as part of the USL Pro League, that will launch in 2011.' (more...)

Joey Saputo - Elected Chairman of the Board of Governors for the new league The owners of the Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina RailHawks, Miami FC, Minnesota Thunder, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC, formerly of the United Soccer Leagues First Division (USL-1), together with St. Louis Soccer United announced that they have formed a new ...

So apparently the USL has been put up for sale by Nike and it appears that MLS is one of the parties interested in purchasing it. It also sounds like MLS is put off by the types of numbers that Nike is looking to get on a deal, and that there is a group of private investors who are in the lead to buy the league. But this begs the question, if MLS is ...