An MLS workforce ravaged by the coronavirus was forced to withdraw from the qualified soccer league’s return-to-engage in match Monday in what was believed to be an unprecedented transfer.

FC Dallas will not participate in the “MLS is Back” match — scheduled to start Wednesday — right after 13 players and one particular mentor examined beneficial for the virus in modern days, the league introduced.

It is considered to be the 1st occasion in which a specialist league has forbidden a crew from becoming a member of the other clubs in returning to perform amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“Given the effect of the variety of constructive exams on the club’s capability to train and engage in aggressive matches, we have created the selection to withdraw FC Dallas from the MLS is Again Match,” MLS commissioner Don Garber reported in a statement.

FC Dallas in a assertion said it supported the league’s final decision.

“While we’re unhappy, the health and safety of our touring delegation as effectively as our league companions is our optimum precedence,” head coach Luchi Gonzalez reported.

The month-lengthy tournament is currently being held at ESPN’s Disney’s Large Globe of Sporting activities Elaborate in Orlando, Fla., together with the resumption of the NBA season, in a bubble-like environment aimed at stopping a coronavirus outbreak.

Three Dallas soccer players tested beneficial for the virus prior to the crew arrived in Florida late last thirty day period, and more cases adopted. The crew has been underneath quarantine in its resort rooms because, and is now coordinating a plan to return to Texas, in which coronavirus circumstances have escalated in modern months.

MLS explained that a few other gamers from two distinctive groups also examined constructive right after the league executed 557 player checks. Gamers are to be examined each individual other day or the working day prior to a recreation.

No names of the gamers who tested optimistic ended up produced.

The enhancement comes as sports activities leagues nationwide attempt to resume play even as numerous states established daily records for coronavirus circumstances.

Many MLB and NBA gamers have now opted out of their respective seasons, whilst the Orlando Delight, a experienced women’s soccer crew, pulled out of its league’s restart match on its own accord last thirty day period just after many players and staffers tested optimistic.

MLS, which has 26 teams, shut down in March simply because of the virus.