At the end of the 2008 season, the MLS decided to scrap their reserve league.  I’m not the biggest supporter of the MLS, for reasons I won’t mention here, but I was happy to see the implementation of the reserve league back at the start of the 2005 season.  I believe in the European model of professional football, and the reserve league in Europe allows for injured players to regain their fitness, and allows fringe players to continue to improve.  For three seasons, MLS started to get the picture.  But, through bad management and poor funding, the reserve league folded at the end of the last MLS season.

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