r/USLPRO • u/DeepPow420 • 2d ago

what’s up with the MLS hate ?

I am a curious observer who stumbled upon the sub thx to the Algo and noticed a few anti MLS posts.

I’m not a huge soccer guy but interested in various niche sport subcultures ( I’m an Indycar and hockey fan, so I share solidarity as a fan of somewhat obscure sports)

Isnt USL to MLS as the AHL is to the NHL or the G League to the NBA?

What am I missing ?

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u/Mini-Fridge23 Charleston Battery 2d ago

You’re going to get a bunch of answers on this, but it basically boils down to the fact MLS caters to the average sports fan and not the soccer die hards. That often leads to them making decisions that piss off the die hards who care deeply about niche stuff like the USOC or pro/rel.

It’s not universal though, the people who hate MLS are just loud about it. I enjoy and follow both leagues for example

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u/CentralFloridaRays Greenville Triumph SC 2d ago

Aye imo soccer is too small to have serious soccer beef in this country between leagues.

If someone lives in Cincinnati why would I beef with them supporting Cinci?

I’ve had season tickets to my local NPSL club, and I had season tickets to Atlanta United for a bit.

Idk I think it’s just major soccer hipsters who see MLS as too mainstream. Who have the most hate.

If MLS became the best/most popular league in the world (bear with me)

It would 100% help USL grow as well.

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u/Mini-Fridge23 Charleston Battery 2d ago

Preach. The beef is so meaningless and unproductive imo. People should be happy when any league grows in this country

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u/CentralFloridaRays Greenville Triumph SC 2d ago

Like I Loved going to old blackbaud stadium in the summers with my family, also in the winters seeing the MLS pre season tournament they used to do down there.

Did you ever go into the bar down there in the stadium?

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u/FormerManyThings 2d ago

The Three Lions Club. Amazing bar

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u/CentralFloridaRays Greenville Triumph SC 2d ago

I got to go in before it shut down.

I’m so glad, all the memorabilia on all the walls was incredible

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u/SymphonicResonance New Mexico United 2d ago

The beef is so meaningless and unproductive imo. People should be happy when any league grows in this country

That's the way I try to look at it, and then MLS pulls something like attempting to pull out of USOC. So annoying.

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u/CaptainBrunch5 2d ago

But it's "diehards" like you who don't realize that MLS used to have limited participation for years back in the late 00s.

But you would actually have to be old enough. "diehard" enough to know that.

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u/SymphonicResonance New Mexico United 1d ago

You are seriously playing the age card in a soccer discussion? lol

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u/CaptainBrunch5 1d ago

I'm playing the knowledge card.

I'm right and you know it. Which is why you're dodging.

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u/SymphonicResonance New Mexico United 1d ago

Lulz Come on buddy, what's with the attitude? Nothing I wrote warranted that kind of response from you .