MISL Players Ask for Salary-Cap Meeting

John Kerr, director of the Major Indoor Soccer League Players Assn., said Friday he sent a letter to MISL Commissioner Bill Kentling suggesting that a meeting be held to discuss the owners’ proposed salary cap reduction from $1.275 million to $898,000 per team for the next two seasons.

The meeting would include Kerr, Kentling and attorneys representing the MISLPA and the MISL.

The owners have stated that if their proposal is not accepted by the players association by April 15, the league will fold in June.

“I don’t think there is any doubt we’ll reach an agreement,” Kerr said. “But it will be a negotiated settlement.”

Kerr also said that MISLPA attorneys are looking into the possibility of filing charges against the league for unfair practices regarding the collective bargaining agreement that has been in effect for 1 1/2 years and has 1 1/2 years to go.

“We have a collective bargaining agreement,” Kerr said, “and they are issuing ultimatums. We don’t like being put in a corner by the commissioner.”

Kerr said filing suit would take time and right now, “we want to go on and keep the league in business.”

Kevin Crow, Socker player representative, said he didn’t think the owners’ reduced salary cap proposal would be accepted by the players.

Crow said that after the Kerr-Kentling meeting, he expects the player representatives to form a committee of four--two players from each division--that also will take part in future meetings.