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MANCHESTER, England, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The Professional Footballers' Association, the union for soccer players in the English Premier League, called off its strike on Friday after reaching an agreement on the division of television money.
Officials for the players and league hammered out a deal that gives the PFA an average of $24.68 million in each of the next three years. The union had asked for $36.43 million while the league had offered $14.57 million.
"We have secured what we believe is the long term future of the PFA and I believe there is satisfaction on both sides," PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor said.
The parties avoided English soccer's first strike. The players, who voted almost unanimously to refuse to take part in televised matches, had been set to boycott nine Premier matches on Dec. 1-2.
The Premier League also had threatened to take the PFA to court and get an injuction halting potential industrial action.
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