Professional - USL

New York Red Bulls look to “bridge the gap” between youth, pro levels via USL PRO

It's widely seen as one of the biggest problems in North American pro soccer: How can teenage academy products be converted into everyday MLS starters more efficiently? With their prolific youth system, the New York Red Bulls have been particularly vexed by this issue and hope to address it with a new venture in 2015.

Is NCAA soccer a better route for aspiring British talent?

In England, the route into pro soccer is very simple, but can be very cruel. The alternate career paths taken by Englishmen turned MLSers Dom Dwyer and Luke Mulholland suggest that North America offers surprising opportunities for players from supposedly superior soccer nations, writes James Kilpatrick.

SW Q&A: Leigh Cowlishaw discusses Richmond Kickers’ past, present, future