D.C. United have been fined $25,000 by Major League Soccer (MLS) for failure to comply fully with the league’s diversity hiring policy when Wayne Rooney was appointed as head coach over the summer.
Rooney replaced Hernan Losada in July, having resigned as manager of League One Derby County a few weeks earlier, but D.C. United were deemed to have breached MLS’ policy that requires its clubs to ensure “the finalist pool includes two or more candidates from underrepresented groups, whereby at least one candidate must be either Black or African-American.”
