USSF receives nomination letters for eight, not nine, presidential candidates

Former U.S. international Brian McBride reacts to U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati's decision to not seek re-election in 2018.

CHICAGO -- The U.S. Soccer Federation says it received the required three letters of nomination for eight candidates in its presidential election, one fewer than the total of people who announced their intention to run.

The USSF is conducting background checks on the candidates whose nominations were received by Tuesday night's deadline. The governing body said the check is to ascertain that a candidate has "no conviction or no contest plea to a felony or crime of moral turpitude" and it will announce...