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ASN Morning Read: MLS Strike Looms on the Horizon
It's getting down to the final days between Major League Soccer and the Players Union, and we don't want to get negative here but it doesn't look great. But hey, there's still time, right?
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
March 02, 2015
8:00 AM
And strike talk: With time running out on negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement between MLS and the MLS Players Union, Portland Timbers defender Nat Borchers remains "hopeful" a deal will get done before the start of the season.
Here's a new one: "It is possible that the players intend to strike and still file a lawsuit, but they aren’t acting like that is the strategy. Bob Foose, the MLS Players Union head, has gone out of his way to avoid brandishing the lawsuit threat. He told NBC Sports that the players have no intention of suing the league, conceding that “[t]here is no question that the league is a single-entity.” That’s not exactly the statement you would make publicly if you intended to file a complaint in Federal Court stating exactly the opposite. Rather, it is the sort of statement designed to defuse tensions and facilitate negotiation."
One more for good measure: "MLS could become a truly major league if it allowed the forces of competition to play out. Probably that means dropping the SE structure. Possibly it means adopting a promotion and relegation system. But above all, it means allowing the capitalist system to operate as the capitalist system is meant to work."
Chuck Blazer, still a crook: "Former FIFA executive Chuck Blazer, a cooperating witness in a federal investigation into corruption within soccer’s global governing body, remains a central figure in the Internal Revenue Service’s effort to recover millions of dollars in unpaid taxes from the regional soccer federation Blazer led for 20 years before his ouster in 2011."
U-17s win.
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