If you play well in the D2 NASL League you move up to the top D1 league MLS...

When you play well in the D3 USL Pro league you get to move "up" to another USL Pro team (that once was in D2...).

Bummer!

Two recent headlines

NASL

Fort Lauderdale Strikers player Bryan Arguez moves up to MLS
http://www.nasl.com/index.php?id=3&newsid=1571
*Arguez 22 was selected in the first round, 11th overall, by D.C. United in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft.

USL Pro
“He’s a veteran presence who can set a great example for the young players"
http://www.uslsoccer.com/home/582146.html
“Michael Zaher is a very talented player who has a lot of experience. He was the captain of the UCLA team, had a couple of years in MLS, and even played with the U18 Men’s National Team (a long time ago...).”

Traynor was a member of Orlando City’s USL PRO Championship winning side in 2011 (and now is no longer on that wining team..).

Yordany Alvarez, who played well in USL Pro, moved up to "the top D1 league MLS." As did Lawrence Olum.

But don't let facts get in your way, Jeff.

Lawrence Olum played well for the Portland Timbers, and the MN Thunder D2 teams. He also played well for the Austin Aztex D2 team before it became a D3 team and he had no choice but to move down to the USL "Pro" D3 Orlando City team. The year after it became Orlando City he left ASAP after the season ended... Great example Bernie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Olum

I would call that leaving as soon as his D2 contract which became a D3 contract ended.

Following an unsuccessful trial with Los Angeles Galaxy, Álvarez was signed to a professional contract by the USL First Division expansion franchise Austin Aztex after attending the Aztex open tryouts in California in March 2009. He made his debut for the team on April 18, 2009, in Austin's USL1 season opener against Minnesota Thunder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordany_Álvarez

On January 21, 2010 renewed his contract by signing a three-year deal with the club.[4] Prior to the 2011 season, new owners purchased the club and moved it to Orlando, Florida, re-naming it Orlando City S.C.. The club will play in the USL Pro league in 2011. At the end of the 2011 USL Pro season, Álvarez signed with Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake on a loan agreement..

Sounds kinda like he did not want to stay in D3, ahe Bernie??

There are many more NASL players Bernie

-Four from Montreal NASL's team moved up...

-NCS MN Stars had Scott Lorenz and Jack Stewart move up...

I could go on but I think you made my point better than I did: As soon as the talented players can leave the USL Pro league, they do move up and away.

Bernie lives!

Apparently the whole Orlando City team wants out of USL Pro/D3 ASAP...

http://www.seminolechronicle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2011/11/30/4ed64a000eacf

When the Englishman made a decision to move the Aztecs from Texas to Orlando, he set a bold long-term goal for the team: Become a Major League Soccer franchise within three to five years.

He eventually founded Austin Aztecs FC in 2007. Texas wasn't exactly the best market, however, for a professional soccer team with high hopes to succeed in the top-tier of the American soccer pyramid.

"We were playing in a high school stadium with American football lines," Rawlins said. "We couldn't sell alcohol. There were no suites. We wanted to explore an opportunity with the MLS, and we couldn't do that in Austin."

So... He must not have known there were already two MLS teams in Texas when he started the team there in 2007...??

"Texas doesn't need, and isn't going to get, a third MLS team," Rawlins said. "With Orlando, the opportunity is there. It's a tremendous marketplace."

Phil Rawlins isn't afraid to be bold. But then again his background is in sales...

"When I started my own business [The Sales Consultancy] back in '89, I sold it 10 years later,"

You are really reaching now. As the saying goes you only pick on the ones you love or are jealous of. Which is it?

I'm going to let you in on a little secret that I shouldn't be revealing on a message board, and you have to promise to not say anything to anyone about it.


The MN Stars, and Atlanta both want to be in the MLS soon and get far away from NASL like Montreal did. Remember you didn't hear that from me.


You see how your childish my NASL team is better than your USL team and vise versa crap goes both ways.

Do everyone a favor and support soccer in what ever market you live in and drop the BS

Yep, all NASL teams want to be in D1, that's why it's called D2...

What plans have the Dayton Dutch Lions made to go up to the MLS?
How many players have gone into the MLS from that team?

Is it true Silly that the USL "Pro" combine will be on April 1 this year?

*I'm just like the USL leaders in Tampa, so get used to a lot of childish stuff this year...

Let's all face it, the next MLS team is going in New York City. beyond that, I do not see MLS expanding anytime soon beyond that. I know this firsthand from my undisclosed sources inside MLS. Orlando is a good team, but they will never make it to MLS by playing in the "third division." USL PRO is such a joke. I just wish thier supporters could recognize that fact.

16 players moved up to D1 in 2012.
1 coach moved up to D1 in 2012

Many players from D3 moved up to D2...

Swing and a miss, take a seat Bernie/Kenn.