Waking the Red · Feb 8, 2017
Don Garber and Major League Soccer’s Canada problem
The single biggest moment of growth for MLS came about 10 years ago, when the league announced the creation of the ‘David Beckham Rule’. Now a decade later, it hopes to recreate some of that impact with what essentially can be called the ‘Atiba Hutchinson Rule’.
For those who missed it, Don Garber recently spoke to Canadian media and discussed growing the game in Canada beyond the existing MLS cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
The core of Garber’s idea to grow the league north of the 49th parallel is to essentially create a special fourth designated player spot that the Canadian teams could use to repatriate Canadian stars currently playing in Europe or elsewhere overseas.