The Philadelphia Union signed defender Kai Wagner to a new contract through the 2026 MLS season. The deal announced Thursday for the 26-year-old German includes an option for 2027.
As everyone around Major League Soccer knows, it was announced that Union left back Kai Wagner was suspended for three matches due to using a racial slur against Bobby Wood towards the end of the first match against New England.
The Major League Soccer (MLS) issued a three-game suspension to Philadelphia Union’s defender, Kai Wagner, for violating the league’s anti-discrimination policy during a match against the New England Revolution in October.
Major League Soccer suspended Philadelphia Union defender Kai Wagner for three matches Tuesday for violating its "on-field antidiscrimination policy." Wagner, a 26-year-old from Germany, admitted he used racist language toward New England Revolution forward Bobby Wood, who is Black and part-Japanese, in last Saturday's playoff opener.
The morale coming into the playoffs this year has a bit of a different feel from seasons passed. Uncertainty around both the future makeup and the current
MLS has opened an investigation into allegations that Philadelphia Union's Kai Wagner directed a racial slur at New England Revolution's Bobby Wood at last Saturday's MLS Cup playoff match, sources told ESPN.
Changes are coming to the core that makes up this Philadelphia Union team. According to initial reports by Pablo Maurer and Tom Bogert of The Athletic,
Coming off a 3-2 win at home against Atlanta, Union now sits in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference with just 2 games left in the regular season. With
Saturday was such a positive night for Union. They traveled down to DC with an energetic group of fans and came back with 3 points in their pocket, and
The Philadelphia Union might have had one of their worse starts to the MLS season in quite some time. The energy level was clearly low and the concentration just wasn’t there.
Kai Wagner has become one of the biggest pieces to this Philadelphia Union’s success. While Wagner is one of the main moving parts of the back four of
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