owners voting earlier this year to implement promotion and relegation in the future.<\/a> In doing so, USL will be the first professional soccer league in America to take that leap.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a great situation for clubs \u2013 not great for owners, of course,\u201d McBride said with a laugh. \u201cIt makes every game meaningful. MLS has their way and they\u2019re doing great, but USL is committed to doing it (their way). It benefits the players. I experienced it in England and Germany. I think it\u2019s a positive in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
The league is still a ways from that happening and details still need to be finalized. The plan is for USL to implement pro-rel in 2028 when it launches a new first division.<\/p>\n
Along the way, Brooklyn plans to get the club off and running to be ready for the next evolution of USL. McBride said the organization is working to secure pre-existing training facilities for the near-term before hopefully building its own in the future. It also aims to have a functioning academy in the future.<\/p>\n
For McBride, an all-time great USMNT forward who enjoyed a successful club career largely at Fulham, the Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire, Brooklyn is his first job working for a team since acting as GM of the USMNT through the last World Cup cycle. He feels his experience there will suit him well as he builds Brooklyn from the ground up. One of the players under his watch with the U.S., Tim Weah, was named part of Brooklyn FC\u2019s ownership group back in May 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose experiences were very beneficial,\u201d McBride said of his time as USMNT GM. \u201cI wanted to build something that felt like a family. Families argue at times, they have great times together, but everybody has the same goal. That\u2019s my philosophy. That was the case during my time with the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn FC has named former U.S. national team great Brian McBride as its first general manager, ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,400,8693,8694],"class_list":["post-10722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-soccer","tag-us-mens-national-team","tag-usl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}