It wouldn’t be 2020 without one last punch to the gut. Although for the MLS Players’ Association, it may feel like that blow landed about six inches lower.
With the end of 2020 finally — mercifully — here, Major League Soccer had one more gift for its players in the form of a notice that the league intends to invoke a Force Majure clause which would allow the owners to withdraw from the Collective Bargaining Agreement and attempt to negotiate a new one, again. The news was first reported by ESPN, and later confirmed by the MLSPA.