At 12:21 AM, on Tuesday Morning, March 26th, PRO Referees/MLS and the Professional Soccer Referee Association greed to a brand new Collective Bargaining Agreement, and now those referees who were protesting in front of the New York City offices at Major League Soccer will begin to work league games this upcoming weekend at all MLS Stadiums.
Pablo Mauer of The Athletic broke the story, as MLS was losing the Public Relations war every matchday, and these replacement referees were officiating the games. Now we will have the best referees back doing what we all want them to do is to officiate the top league matches properly and fairly for the right reasons.
More will be coming later in the day. For now, it's a big moment for the players who can finally feel some relief that the top referees of this league will be back in action, and this farce has finally come to a screeching halt.
From the Athletic including photo:,
https://theathletic.com/5368703/2024/03/26/mls-referees-cba-deal-vote/
MLS referees ratify CBA proposal, could return to games this weekend
After last week's over 100 minute games and a couple of badly missed throw in calls, it was just too embarrassing to keep using these very uneven referees.
It would be great to know what the terms of the CBA are.....which side prevailed?