“Gianni is from a long tradition of FIFA presidents from Switzerland who don’t understand the U.S. sports system. He should be thinking about cleaning up FIFA instead of suggestingbusiness models for U.S. soccer. Promotion and relegation is a relic from the days when this was not really a business.”

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