US Soccer has released a press release regarding the on going dispute between the USL and the breakaway NASL. If you’re looking for any clues as to what the USSF will do regarding Division 2 status the whole release is unsurprisingly cryptic on that however this is the first time the USSF has mentioned the new league by name:

CHICAGO (Dec. 7, 2009) – U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati, CEO/Secretary General Dan Flynn and Professional Council Chairman Don Garber met with representatives from both the United Soccer League (USL-1) and the North American Soccer League in New York on Sunday (Dec. 6) to discuss Division II league plans in 2010.

“We had a productive meeting and the discussions will continue,” said Gulati.  “In the interim we have asked both groups to submit additional information,”

Both leagues have been requested to provide further details of their respective league plans by Dec. 9 to U.S. Soccer’s Professional League Task Force. Once the Task Force determines that the parties have provided the needed information, it will update the U.S. Soccer Board of Directors for further review.

U.S. Soccer’s Professional League Task Force is chaired by Flynn, and includes board members Carlos Cordeiro and Mike Edwards.

Inside Minnesota Soccer has been on top of the USL Team Owners Association/NASL story since day one and they have much more on all this at this link here.

Meanwhile our friends at the newly minted site, NASL News and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle report that the sides are still far apart as the meeting the federation called resolved little if anything.
Rochester owner Rob Clark:

“I know people were hoping for some sort of magic, but there was no magic,” Clark said. “There’s really not much to talk about. No compromise was reached. The NASL is moving forward with the application process and we’ll see what happens.”

Clark was not at the meetings. He said he was brought “up to speed,” via phone calls from NASL reps that were there. He said three people on the NASL Board of Governors were there, but did not want to specify who they were. He said he was not there because “there would just be too many people.” He made a point to say that reps from the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) were not there.

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