MLS withdraws first teams from U.S. Open Cup
Major League Soccer will not send its first teams to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 2024, instead sending teams from its two-year-old development league, MLS Next Pro, to the country’s oldest soccer tournament, the league announced Friday.The decision comes after MLS commissioner Don Garber criticized the tournament’s state during an open session of the USSF board of directors meeting in May, calling it “a very poor reflection on what it is that we’re trying to do with soccer …