After opening the season with replacement referees, MLS's usual officials will return to the field this weekend.
’s crew of full-time referees will return to the field this weekend after agreeing to a new, seven-year collective bargaining agreement with the Professional Referees Organization , the MLS-funded entity that administers professional refereeing in North America. Talks between PRO and the Professional Soccer Referees Association broke down earlier this year and in mid-February, PRO locked its officials out.
The Major League Soccer Players Association went a step further and put out a public statement, one which suggested Garber’s comments were “grossly inaccurate” and that the replacement refs were under-trained, lacked experience and were “not nearly at the level that a league of MLS stature deserves.” Garber and Rodriguez’s view is also not universally shared among team ownership groups.
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