The U.S. Soccer Federation is now fighting a two-front legal war over its future. Earlier this month, one of the nation’s leading soccer promoters, Relevent Sports, refiled an antitrust lawsuit against USSF for blocking foreign leagues from scheduling official league matches in the U.S. This suit comes two years after the North American Soccer League sued USSF and later MLS for conspiring to keep NASL out of both of USSF’s two top tiers.



The same law firm, Winston and Strawn, led by the same star sports attorney, Jeff Kessler, represents the plaintiffs in both suits, which seek similar organizational (or injunctive) changes in the way professional soccer in the U.S. is run as well as damages from the defendants.



USSF has not yet had time to answer the Relevent Sports complaint. But much has happened since the NASL filed its action, little of it good for the NASL. But there is still the possibility that the NASL could prevail on some of its issues or...