“I will say that I’m pleased that our Competition group and U.S. Soccer have been working together since that last U.S. Soccer board meeting on ways to evolve the U.S. Open Cup so that it can be more valuable to everybody. That process is ongoing. There might be changes to our participation sometime in the future. There’s nothing that we can announce right now.”
— MLS commissioner Don Garber, asked on Friday at his state of the league address whether MLS was looking to skip the U.S. Open Cup. At a May meeting of the U.S. Soccer board of directors, on which he is the longest-serving member, Garber said the tournament was “a very poor reflection on what it is that we’re trying to do with soccer at the highest level.”
What They’re Saying: Don Garber
