Real Salt Lake is "looking for a culture reset" after a "tumultuous couple of years that have seen the firings of head coaches and executives, investigations into racist and sexist behavior, and an owner’s decision to sell," according to Alex Vejar of the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. RSL yesterday released a document titled "The RSL Way," which publicizes the organization’s "new mission statement, its code of ethics, its cultural values, and several other ideas it wants to live by." RSL is in the middle of an ownership transition, but the events surrounding former Owner Dell Loy Hansen and Chief Business Officer Andy Carroll were "just some in a yearslong deterioration of what RSL has meant to the local soccer community and the state of Utah as a whole." RSL Assistant GM Tony Beltran wrote the document, "with assistance and input from several in the RSL organization," including GM Elliot Fall and Exec VP/Soccer Operations Rob Zarkos. Early in the process, Beltran said that he and Fall "discussed the club’s need for a 'culture revitalization.'" Vejar notes the way the document "lays that out is through identifying five core values: Pride, Community, Integrity, Harmony and Industry" (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 1/19).
