Published Sun, Mar 21 10 12:10 AM
A threatened strike in Major League Soccer (MLS) has been averted after league management and the players union announced they had reached a deal.
"We have signed a new five-year collective bargaining agreement," MLS commissioner Don Garber told a teleconference on Saturday.
Players had voted to strike if a deal was not reached by midnight on Tuesday.
It now looks likely the season will begin with the scheduled opening game on Thursday.
MLS differs from most soccer leagues in being a 'single entity' where the league, rather than the clubs, own the rights to the players.
The union had wanted major changes to that structure which it had called a cartel that restricted freedom of movement.
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