D.C. United 's hiring of Wayne Rooney as their manager has resulted in the club being slapped with a fine worth more than £21,000.
The former Manchester United and England captain - who was recently been spotted back in the UK after slumping to a rock-bottom finish with D.C. in the Eastern Conference - headed back to North America in July, having spent two campaigns with the club as a player in 2018 and 2019.
But in the 37-year-old's return to Washington, which came about after he made the shock decision to quit as boss of Derby County, the club failed to meet Major League Soccer' s Diversity Hiring Policy. The policy, which was last amended in December 2021, requires all teams searching for a new head coach to have a 'finalist pool [which] includes two or more candidates from underrepresented groups, whereby at least one candidate must be either Black or African American'.
