"We recently evaluated the opportunity to purchase the USL but elected to not submit a bid for the league," Dan Courtemanche, a senior vice president for marketing and communications at MLS said in an e-mail message.
A few issues factored into MLS's decision to refrain from bidding. Primarily, MLS has a long-term deal with adidas, which means that acquiring the Nike-owned league could raise potential antitrust snags. One potential buyer could be the Brazil-based soccer giant Traffic, which owns clubs and the rights to players throughout the Western Hemisphere. Traffic already owns the USL League 1 club Miami, and has reportedly been negotiating a larger takeover of the league.
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