MLS Players Association executive director Bob Foose hasn’t been impressed with what he’s seen from America’s top domestic soccer league a little more than a year away from the 2026 World Cup, the majority of which will take place on U.S. soil.
Major League Soccer is entering its 30th season of existence when it begins play this upcoming weekend, but Foose contented that not enough was being done to capitalize on the “momentum” that comes with hosting the biggest sports tournament on the planet in the coming year.
“I’ve been disappointed in how little has been done so far to build on that momentum internally,” Foose told ESPN about MLS’ lack of capitalization on the lead-up to the 2026 World Cup. “There’s still some time, but in my opinion, there should have been significant moves made over the last 12 to 18 months and then continuing up through the World Cup. The system needs to be streamlined, it needs to be opened up. Clubs need to be able to compete better and we need to be able to go out and present to the world a different MLS coming out of the back end of the World Cup than that which was there before.
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