{"id":68596,"date":"2026-03-10T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/folding-teams-a-labor-fight-and-expansion-the-usls-structure-allows-for-it-all-to-happen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:56:21","slug":"folding-teams-a-labor-fight-and-expansion-the-usls-structure-allows-for-it-all-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/folding-teams-a-labor-fight-and-expansion-the-usls-structure-allows-for-it-all-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding teams, a labor fight, and \u2026 expansion? The USL\u2019s structure allows for it all to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organization that runs most of US lower-league soccer is making a big push after the 2026 World Cup \u2013 is it a bridge too far? <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been years, but Dan Egner\u2019s X profile still shows him <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/danoegner\">planting a kiss<\/a> on the USL Championship\u2019s silver cup. These days, Egner is an agent with NordicSky, representing clients on both sides of the Atlantic. But in 2019, when that picture was taken, he was the technical director of Real Salt Lake at a time when MLS teams had affiliates in the USL, the umbrella organization that runs much of lower-league soccer in the United States, including the second-division USL Championship.<\/p>\n<p>When Salt Lake\u2019s affiliate Real Monarchs won the final, the glory was sweet, but it was not profitable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/10\/usl-structure-promotion-relegation-expansion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organization that runs most of US lower-league soccer is making a big push after the 2026 World Cup \u2013 is it a bridge too far? It\u2019s been years, but Dan Egner\u2019s X profile still shows him planting a kiss on the USL Championship\u2019s silver cup. These days, Egner is an agent with NordicSky, representing &#8230; <a title=\"Folding teams, a labor fight, and \u2026 expansion? The USL\u2019s structure allows for it all to happen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/folding-teams-a-labor-fight-and-expansion-the-usls-structure-allows-for-it-all-to-happen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Folding teams, a labor fight, and \u2026 expansion? The USL\u2019s structure allows for it all to happen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}