US Soccer and Major League Soccer will go to trial this week to defend themselves against claims they colluded to eliminate the North American Soccer League from the upper tiers of US men’s professional soccer.
NASL asserts that US Soccer and MLS violated antitrust law by conspiring to ensure MLS held onto its monopoly power as the sole top “Division I” league. Whether US Soccer’s denial of NASL’s request for Division I status amounted to illegal conduct will be a key question for the jury.
The outcome of the trial, set to begin Monday with jury selection in the US ...
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