Scott Taetsch/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
Major League Soccer officials will not punish the Philadelphia Union midfielder Alejandro Bedoya for grabbing a field microphone during a national television broadcast on Sunday night and urging Congress to act to end gun violence.
The shouted statement, which came moments after Bedoya scored the opening goal in a Union victory, was not out of character for the player, who had expressed — in more explicit terms — a similar call to action on social media in the hours before the match. But it created a potentially uncomfortable situation for M.