The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nashville out of MLS tourney after nine players test positive
Nashville SC has withdrawn from Major League Soccer’s MLS is Back tournament in Florida after nine players tested positive for the coronavirus, the league announced Thursday. Nashville is the second team to withdraw. FC Dallas had to pull out after 10 players and a coach tested positive.
“The club has been unable to train since arriving in Orlando and would not be able to play matches,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in a statement.
The league will revise its schedule for the group stage, which began Wednesday. Atlanta United’s first game is Saturday vs. New York Red Bulls.
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U.S. Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who also co-owns the Atlanta Dream, released a letter Tuesday objecting to the WNBA’s plans to honor and participate in the “Black Lives Matter” movement during its coming season. Loeffler’s comments were met with backlash and calls for her to be removed from the league.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spoke with former Dream star and two-time Olympian Angel McCoughtry, who now plays for the Las Vegas Aces, about her former owner’s comments, Loeffler’s place in the league and the
WNBA season. This conversation has been edited for clarity.
You led the campaign to honor women who were victims of police brutality, like Breonna Taylor who was killed in her home in Louisville, to be honored on the back of jerseys during the season. Why was that important to you?
It was really important to me, not just for Louisville — of course that hit home a little bit (McCoughtry is a former University of Louisville star). But just in general, we were just tired of seeing so much happen, one after the