Montreal (AFP)

Impact Montreal coach Thierry Henry preferred to talk about the North American Championship (MLS) game lost Friday (1-0) against Toronto FC, rather than commenting on the boycott that his players defended but did not 'have not carried out, to protest racial injustice.

After the large-scale movement to postpone matches in different sports leagues, in the wake of the boycott of the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA on Wednesday after the Jacob Blake affair, the Impact players preferred not to play their match, as the LA Galaxy and the Seattle Sounders Wednesday.

Asked several times about this, Thierry Henry did not want to confirm or comment on this situation.

"I'm not going to go into those details. If you don't want to talk about the game, it's going to be difficult. I still think it's super important to talk about the game," he replied.

"Toronto played a good game and they deserved to win. Can we talk about that? If you want to find stories with other people, you can do that, but respect that," he added. .

Defender Rudy Camacho clearly confirmed the information.

"We had agreed not to play. On Thursday we had a call with players from Toronto who were supposedly campaigning for the cause and they said they wanted to play. We found it a bit odd. . We thought about it and we did not agree at all. But we felt that no one was supporting us, "said the Belgian.

“None of us wanted to play,” added teammate Luis Binks. “Several players in the locker room, not to mention everyone, felt the right thing to do was show our support for what is happening in the United States. . The image would have been powerful coming from two Canadian clubs. It didn't happen. We weren't able to get along. "

While the MLS has therefore returned to the field, members of the Black Players for Change coalition will soon meet with club owners and the league.

The purpose of the meeting "will be to plan how we are going to tackle systemic racism here in the future. Because so far we have not felt that support from most of our owners and the community. league in particular ", justified its executive member Earl Edwards, goalkeeper of DC United.

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