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MLS and Players Union agree CBA terms for next five years

Major League Soccer and the MLS Players Union have reach an settlement regarding the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The league and the union have agreed terms for the next five years, starting for the 2015 season which begins this weekend, and taking the CBA through until the beginning of the 2019 campaign.

MLS Commissioner Don Garber said: "We are pleased to finalize the framework for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with our players.

"We now enter our 20th season with enormous momentum with our new television partnerships, dynamic star players from the US, Canada and abroad, and two new expansion teams in New York City and Orlando that will debut in front of more than 60,000 fans on Sunday in the Citrus Bowl.

"This agreement will provide a platform for our players, ownership and management to work together to help build Major League Soccer into one of the great soccer leagues in the world."

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