The United States Soccer Federation presedential election is receiving an unprecedented amount of attention from media and fans alike. The vote will take place on Saturday, but since the multitude of candidates’ declarations that they would run—and current president Sunil Gulati’s admittance that he would not seek re-election—there has been immense debate over which issues are the most important. The importance of the election only increased when the USMNT were eliminated on the final day of World Cup qualifying.
Many of the proposed and requested reforms have circled around issues like equal working conditions for the USWNT, ending pay-to-play youth soccer programs, and the ever-controversial installation of a promotion and relegation system in the American pyramid.