Buzz Carrick at 3rd Degree has posted a longer rundown of why he thinks a players strike wouldn't be effective. I agree with a lot of what he has to say.
-FS
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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"2. Foreign Players know how good it is here in MLS. Wonderful facilities, a great place to live, the checks show up on time and the clear the bank, good education for kids, safe on and off the field, and a certain amount of anonymity. How many of them are willing to risk careers and/or having visas getting dropped to strike? (Would visas be at risk?) How many of them will ignore a strike and show up to play? A great many of them I would think. Being under contract they can’t just go to some other league Remember roughly 1/3 of FCD players, most of them foreign players, already voted to accept the first MLS offer, and that was before concessions."
Mr. FS - This is not true for top foriegn players....
The player strike wouldn't have been effective for one simple reason. MLS prefers bankruptcy to so many of the rights that players enjoy in top leagues all over the world. Most owners would suffer little, and it would leave their other holdings safe from soccer competition for a few more years.
Maybe it's because those leagues can't go bankrupt. Maybe we could stand to dilute the power of this league, the way it's been done successfully in every other major soccer nation.
Nothing but the whole wide world to gain.
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