Jay Berhalter, whostepped down from his position as U.S. Soccer’s chief commercial and strategy officer at the end of February, will work as a consultant on the new MLS player development project the league announcedon Wednesday minutes after the federation confirmed it was shuttering the Development Academy it operated in the boys side since 2007 and girls side since 2017.

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