{"id":82846,"date":"2025-11-19T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/union-sd-ernst-tanner-on-leave-mls-reopens-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:03:26","slug":"union-sd-ernst-tanner-on-leave-mls-reopens-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/union-sd-ernst-tanner-on-leave-mls-reopens-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Union SD Ernst Tanner on leave; MLS reopens investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ernst Tanner, Sporting Director of the Philadelphia Union, on Administrative Leave Due to MLS Investigation<\/h2>\n\nPhiladelphia Union announced this Wednesday that its sporting director, Ernst Tanner, has been placed on administrative leave. Major League Soccer (MLS) has decided to reopen an investigation into allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior.\n\nAccording to a recent report, Tanner allegedly made racist comments directed at black players, coaches, and referees. In addition, he is accused of using sexist and homophobic language in the workplace. These accusations were presented to the league through a complaint from the MLS Players Association.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;The Philadelphia Union takes all allegations of misconduct very seriously and is committed to maintaining a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for everyone associated with our club. Discrimination, harassment, or abusive conduct of any kind has no place here, and all staff must complete annual sensitivity training,&#8221; the club stated in a statement.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Philadelphia Union<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMLS had previously concluded an investigation into the allegations, but closed the case after being unable to verify the claims. Following the publication of the report, the league announced the reopening of the investigation to further analyze the allegations.\n\nThe league has stated that, &#8220;given the nature of the accusations, Mr. Tanner has been required to participate in a structured corrective program focused on professional conduct in the workplace&#8221;.\n\nTanner joined the Union as sporting director in 2018 and signed a contract extension in 2021.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst Tanner, Sporting Director of the Philadelphia Union, on Administrative Leave Due to MLS Investigation Philadelphia Union announced this Wednesday that its sporting director, Ernst Tanner, has been placed on administrative leave. Major League Soccer (MLS) has decided to reopen an investigation into allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior. According to a recent report, Tanner allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8494,10399,2577,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-82846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-allegations","9":"tag-ernst-tanner","10":"tag-investigation","11":"tag-mls"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}