It’s one thing for clubs to get demoted into a lower division. It’s an even more bitter pill to swallow when they aren’t presented with a clear path for promotion into the top tier.That’s one of the reasons why U.S. Soccer’s splitting of the Boys Development Academy’s U-18/19 league into two divisions has sparked so much outrage.
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