before MLS proceeded to create a D3 league now known as MLS Next Pro. “That’s what the evidence shows,” Kessler said, during his 3-hour closing on Friday. But the co-defendants have ...

“It’s a small, insular world,” Kessler said of soccer in the US. “Either you belong or you don’t.” The lawsuit boils down to a claim from NASL that USSF and MLS conspired to prevent ...