The North American Soccer League (NASL) held its inaugural annual general meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, last Thursday through Saturday. Representatives of the 11 member teams attended the meeting and made several key decisions following the announcement by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) last Thursday that teams from the NASL would play in a league administered by the USSF in for 2010 season.

This week, two big events will take place in Fort Lauderdale. The first is the Annual General Meeting of the newly formed North American Soccer League, which begins on January 7tth. With the controversial decision by the United States Soccer Federation last week to not sanction the startup league (which is largely formed by existing teams), the meetings are almost certain to yield some headline news.

US Soccer has sent out an advisory this morning that there will be a press conference today at 2:00 CT in regard to Division II professional soccer league for the 2010 season.

Those in attendance will be U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati, U.S. Soccer CEO/Secretary General Dan Flynn, USL CEO Alec Papadakis and NASL Acting Commissioner Jeff Cooper.

As part of the new North American Soccer Leagues annual general meeting agenda, team representatives reviewed artwork that inches toward the final logo for the league. While this may not be the final official logo, it certainly reveals the direction the official logo will be going. The font is exactly the same as the old NASL logo designed back in the 70's.

Website to be revealed this week in conjunction with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention.

Jan. 11, 2010 – The North American Soccer League (NASL) held its inaugural annual general meeting in Ft. Lauderdale last Thursday through Saturday. Representatives of the 11 member teams attended the meeting and made several key decisions following the announcement by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) on Thursday that teams from the NASL would play in a league administered by the USSF in the 2010 season.

NASL AGM's to Take Place this Week Will Share Fort Lauderdale Stage with MLS College Draft

We are less than 24-hours from the deadline set by US Soccer for resolution between the USL and NASL to assure there will be Division II soccer in the US and Canada for the 2010 season.

Throughout much of the year, South Florida is a football wasteland, with little in the way of meaningful professional soccer taking place locally. International breaks are different, with frequent US National Team training sessions and of course frequent friendlies featuring the likes of Honduras and Colombia.

According to Duane Rollins and Ben Roycroft of It's Called Football (ICF) and reported at The 24th Minute, Joey Saputo of the Montreal Impact, spoke on Wednesday night to Montreal's Team 990's (radio) Noel Butler. Butler reported to ICF that the USL and NASL have reached an agreement that will see both leagues operate in 2010.

Below you will find a rather long and sometimes abbreviated transcription of last Thursdays press conference with the National Sports Center (NSC) concerning the non-profit organization fielding a new soccer team for the state of Minnesota. The press and interested parites were able to ask questions to Barclay Kruse, Public Relations Director from NSC, Paul Erickson, Executive Director MN Amateur Sports Commission, and Kris Bjerkness Chief Administrative Officer NSC who was calling in from Fort Lauderdale where he was attending the North American Soccer Leagues 1st Annual General Meeting.