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Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will not compete on this 12 months’s U.S. Open Cup and simply eight of Main League Soccer’s 26 American groups will enter the competitors.
CHICAGO: Lionel Messi and Inter Miami received’t compete on this 12 months’s U.S. Open Cup and simply eight of Main League Soccer’s 26 American groups will enter the competitors.
Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas Metropolis, Los Angeles FC, Salt Lake, San Jose and Seattle will enter the 96-team competitors, the U.S. Soccer Federation stated Friday.
Houston is the defending event champion and the others have been among the many prime seven groups from final 12 months’s regular-season Supporters’ Protect standings.
MLS groups will enter within the fourth spherical and face solely decrease tier squads till a head-to-head MLS matchup is unavoidable. Final 12 months, 18 MLS groups entered within the third spherical and eight within the fourth.
Houston beat Miami 2-1 in final 12 months’s remaining. Messi missed the sport due to an harm.
MLS introduced Dec. 15 it was pulling all its groups from the nation’s oldest soccer competitors, which began in 1914, and was changing them with third-tier developmental sides from MLS Subsequent Professional.
The us stated 5 days later it was treating MLS’s resolution as a request that it was turning down.
In its announcement, the us stated it improved monetary incentives, elevated journey reimbursement and added new industrial companions.
MLS stated it is going to enter 11 groups from its third tier: Austin, Carolina, Chattanooga, Chicago. Colorado, Crown Legacy, Minnesota, LA Galaxy, New York Metropolis, New York Crimson Bulls and Portland.
The second tier United Soccer League Championship is getting into all 24 groups.
First-round matches will probably be scheduled for March 19-21, adopted by the second spherical on April 2 and three, the third spherical on April 16 and 17, the fourth spherical on Could 7 and eight and the fifth spherical on Could 21 and 22. Quarterfinals will probably be July 9 and 10, semifinals on Aug. 27 and 28 and the championship on Sept. 25.
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