This afternoon, Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl appeared on Fox Sports 1 to confirm that Major League Soccer’s Disciplinary Committee will not suspend New York City FC star man David Villa for a controversial kickout at Toronto FC’s Armando Cooper Sunday at BMO Field.
Wahl noted that the DisCo unanimously agreed that the incident warranted a red card, but they did not come to consensus on the second criterion for a suspension, per league regulations, that the kick was of “egregious or reckless in nature such that the the Committee must act to protect player safety or the integrity of the game.