Guardian understands disqualification from US league of teams with common owner stems from breaches of salary cap rules
athletes from sports including football, basketball and wrestling. The program is in its second year and has sent players to MLR and the USA men’s sevens team.
Control of MLR will be increasingly attractive as two US-hosted Rugby World Cups approach and World Rugby looks to invest in the American game. In May, when the 2031 men’s and 2033 women’s events were announced in Dublin, Matt McCarthy, a leading reporter on US rugby, told the Guardian a “huge, game-changing investment in high schools, colleges, clubs, for men and women, sevens and 15s” would also “safeguard the future of Major League Rugby as a fully professional men’s 15s competition”.
McCarthy added: “The establishment of the pro league in Japan in the years before the 2019 World Cup shows what World Rugby knows must happen. Now the World Cups are coming to America, MLR simply cannot be allowed to fail.”
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