Did anyone else know that MLS and the player's union have reached out to a mediator?
FOXBOROUGH — Major League Soccer teams having been training all over the world in preparation for the league’s 15th season. But an impasse in collective bargaining is raising doubts about the season opener, a Seattle Sounders-Philadelphia United match scheduled March 25.
...There is no way a work stoppage is going to help anything. There’s not enough momentum in this league, and even if there were, you can look at what happened with the NASL, which had tremendous momentum.’’
MLS and the players have agreed to admit a mediator, George H. Cohen, director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, to the negotiating process. Meanwhile, MLS teams have started competing this week in the CONCACAF Champions League....