Seifert said that was partly by design: After Germany's disastrous showing in the 2000 Euro, the country's national federation ordered its clubs to begin investing in youthacademies.
The upside to this arrangement is that the MLS has begun to follow the international lead in allowing players to develop from a younger age within their local MLS youthacademies.
"I am proud of the work we have done thus far with the RBI program and the MLB Urban YouthAcademies, but there is more that we must accomplish, " Selig said.
Those exceptions include not counting money spend on youth and training academies as a loss, and - in certain circumstances - allowing clubs to deduct the wages paid to players on pre-June 2010 contracts.