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D.C. United’s new training site isn’t reneging anything with the District.

Apparently in the wake of D.C. United announcing that Loudoun County would be the site of a training facility and 5-6,000 seat stadium for a Division II soccer team, the concern that was mentioned in Steven Goff’s Washington Post article last week is that “...most employees would have to move...” to the Leesburg, Virginia site, and thus be in breach of the No-Relocation Agreement the team entered into with the District in 2015 as part of making Audi Field a reality.

So let’s take a look at the section of the agreement that people appear to be citing in this, namely Article 3 (Other Covenants), and address them in ascending order:

  • Section 3.