How are those structural changes coming along? USSF is just as corrupt as FIFA. Perhaps not financially, but corrupt in the manner that they refuse to even have an open dialog about Pro/Rel in the US. Corrupt in the manner that’s Sunil was the President of USSF while still being employed by the Kraft family and the Revs. Corrupt in the manner of basically shutting down NASL for their deficiencies, but allowed USL to get waivers for theirs and keep playing.
I could go on and on. The fact is that there is no incentive for USSF to want to get better and truly compete for a WC. They already have their 1st Division Domestic League and a closed system that doesn’t allow anyone to infringe on it.
Lastly, why the hell does what is essentially a Rec League (AYSO) have that large of a percentage of the vote.
Well, its been ... what? A little over 2 months. The new guy has been there a very short period of time, but has driven some fundamental changes. Let take a quick look at some of the biggies announced within the last few months:
1. The General Manager positions were approved by the Board and hiring is underway:
https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/20...for-mens-womens-national-team-general-manager and
http://www.espn.com/soccer/united-s...terview-for-us-soccer-general-manager-sources.
2.
Improving Oversight & Accountability at U.S. Soccer - On April 7th, the Board of Directors approved several important reforms to empower the Board to play a greater role in all Federation activities and enhance oversight and accountability and created two new committees:
- A Technical Development Committee co-chaired by Carlos Bocanegra and Angela Hucles, to provide Board-level oversight of soccer operations; and,
- A Commercial Committee to oversee all Federation commercial activities, which will be chaired by a new independent director to replace outgoing Donna Shalala.
3. To better align the Board and day-to-day Federation operations and to more effectively serve all our members, the Board also approved changes at the staff level. Among them:
- Expanding and formalizing the Membership Department—which will be headed by Brian Remedi, who will serve as Chief Stakeholders Officer, working with Caitlin Carducci;
- Nico Romejin will serve as Chief Sport Development Officer, responsible for all technical areas, including Player Development and Coaching Education, and Ryan Mooney, as Chief Soccer Officer, will coordinate administrative needs on the technical side;
- Jay Berhalter will serve as Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer, responsible for corporate, broadcast and retail partnerships, event operations and revenue; and,
- Tonya Wallach will serve as our new Chief Talent and Inclusion Officer to promote equality and diversity across all programs at all levels.
With regard to the "corrupt" comment, its not fair (or logically relevant) to attribute any wrongdoing of the previous leadership with the new leadership. Carlos and crew have specifically created independent board oversight on issues related to both Technical Development and Commercial relationships.
The Commercial Committee is specifically responsive to the MLS/SUM criticisms. While US Soccer had a bad apple or two a few years ago, those guys were drummed out and I fundamentally disagree with the assessment that US Soccer is corrupt (maybe inept, but not corrupt).
The reason AYSO and many of the youth council members have such a large percentage of the membership vote is because they have more members. You see, US Soccer is made up of members, the Professional council, has a disproportionate membership vote if its based purely on members. Have you read the bylaws? because these are some fairly basic questions that are answered in the Bylaws -
https://www.ussoccer.com/~/media/files/governance/2018/20180211-2017-18-bylaw-book.pdf?la=en
Moreover, because US Soccer is the USOC NGB it must also adhere to the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, thus, the athletes councils will have significant votes.