DC United announced Friday night the suspension of forwards Taxi Fountas and Roberta Nigel for what he called “potential violations of league policy.” The club said it “immediately reported the matter to the League Office, at which time MLS began to collect all available information.”
The statement did not specify why either Robertha or Fountas had been suspended, but several sources present or briefed on the incident said the athletic on Friday that Fountas was accused of using a racial slur at Robertha during a recent training session. Robertha, those same sources said, physically assaulted Fountas after hearing the insult.
DC United declined to comment further on the allegations on Friday.
Fountas was previously accused of using a racial slur at a game last season. Major League Soccer investigated the incident, calling intermiamiFountas’ allegations that Fountas directed an insult at one of his players are “credible”, but they refused to discipline the player after they could not conclusively prove that he had done so.
Earlier Friday, DC United announced the firing of its athletic trainer after the club learned he used “a discriminatory hand gesture made by the individual who appeared in a photograph posted to social media platforms on July 20, 2023.”
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MLS finds allegation that Fountas used racial slurs ‘credible’
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