Carolina RailHawks owner Selby Wellman isn't worried about the latest public jab the United Soccer League took at the proposed new professional soccer league he and other owners want to build.

The USL, the league where the RailHawks played their first three seasons, took issue with the proposed league after it announced that franchises from Tampa and Baltimore were joining the seven other teams, including Carolina, in an attempt to form a rival Division II professional soccer league. The owners want to get the league approved by the United States Soccer Federation.

In a statement published late Friday evening on the USL Web site, the league claimed that Tampa and Baltimore were contractually bound to play in the USL for 2010, adding that the league would “pursue all actions to protect its interests and those of the USL-1 teams from any breach of contract caused by Tampa and Baltimore.”

The USL also said it believed the owners of the upstart league — which Wellman said would have a name by today — were “tortuously interfering with USL-1 team owners that are contractually obligated to participate in the 2010 season.”

In an interview today, Wellman said he was sure there was nothing illegal about the actions of the group.

“We've had attorneys with us in New York — I was up there a few days last week with Baltimore and Tampa — we've had attorneys look at every single document and we don't believe that to be true,” Wellman said.

“We're sticking to what we believe in,” Wellman added. “We believe in the new league.…We're getting interest from all over the country from owners who are basically saying ‘Finally. A league that knows how to run one and we are interested to be a part of it.'”

Wellman said the addition of Tampa and Baltimore to the group was “huge” to the case his group is trying to make to the USSF. Besides the RailHawks and the two newcomers, the proposed league includes Minnesota, Vancouver, Montreal, Atlanta, St. Louis and Miami.

“The Federation requires eight playing teams to get accreditation, so that put us over the finish line,” Wellman said.

Earlier this month, Minnesota appeared to be in dire straits after its general manager and coach left, the team released all its players and the USL announced it planned to replace Minnesota in its league.

However, Wellman said Minnesota is still in the proposal for the new league and that the franchise's financial foes have been fixed. He would not elaborate on the details. .

“It's all been resolved, and Minnesota will have a team in our league the beginning of April,” Wellman said. “It resolves all financial situations.”

Wellman also could not confirm the new league's name, because the owners were to select one on Tuesday.

This week could be big for the proposed league that applied for formation on Nov. 10. It's possible the league could settle on a name, add more teams that jump ship from the USL and go before the USSF -- which has already looked at its application -- all within the week.

“[The USSF] took a look at it this weekend and as we expected they are asking for more information,” Wellman said. “So it's my anticipation that myself and a small group of owners will be going to New York sometime in the next 10 days to answer those questions.”