The drastic decision that Landon Donovan made with his team in the USL Championship

The game between San Diego Loyal and Phoenix Rising had to be suspended before 90 minutes as the local team decided to withdraw voluntarily after Collin Martin suffered verbal attacks by the rival team. Landon Donovan, owner of the San Diego Royal, was one of those who supported the decision not to continue with the game.

As a first protest, the players had decided to kneel on the playing field waiting for the referee to take the necessary measures, but it was not. The referee maintained that he could not do anything since he had not seen or heard what happened. Then the discussions moved off the soccer field between Donovan and Rick Schlantz, the rival coach.

Donovan argued that these things could no longer happen in society and that they should be stopped, so he asked the rival coach to remove the players in question. Schlantz, obliviously, mocked the former United States national team figure that he had much more experience than he.

The USL defended the player Collin Martin saying that they were going to investigate what happened and that if it were true they would impose sanctions on those involved. For his part, the president of Phoenix Rising maintained that the accusations are false and that no player on his team mistreated a rival. Donovan is very angry with the entire rival team and believes that there must be urgent changes in the league so that these problems stop happening.