MLS, Jadon Sancho (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)
This week, people around the world are speaking out against racial injustice. If and when games return, MLS must tread carefully in their response to players, managers and fans who partake in the same protests.
Major League Soccer has always veered away from politics. And it has not done so in the most flattering and productive of ways. From Don Garber’s jaw-droppingly poor response to a question regarding white supremacists and nazis being a part of the New York City FC crowd to the banning of the Portland Timbers supporters supporting the anti-fascist group, The Iron Front, in an infamous match versus the Seattle Sounders last year.