Major League Soccer is not a league prone to recklessness. Say what you will of the stateside soccer circuit celebrating its 25th season, but it has gotten here, far outlasting any other professional league in the United States, through remarkable discipline and long-term planning.
Which is why its insistence on resuming play in Florida has jarred.
MLS became the first major American men’s league to return to playing on Wednesday with an Orlando City-Inter Miami game at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Disney World outside of Orlando. It was the opener of the tautological MLS is Back Tournament — a 2-1 Orlando win.