D.C. United announced Thursday that the club and Taxi Fountas have mutually agreed to terminate the Greek forward’s contract following what MLS determined were “credible allegations that he used prohibited and discriminatory language against another player.”
Fountas, 27, had been on administrative leave since July 21 amid an MLS investigation. His exit brings to an end a turbulent 15-month stint in the nation’s capital, in which his prolific production — his 18 goals led United in that span — was overshadowed by separate accusations that he used a racial slur against another player.
A person familiar with the situation said Saturday that United had been moving toward a termination of Fountas’s contract.