This was supposed to be Freedom Kicks, but I’ve got something else on my mind today. Major League Soccer positions itself as one of the major professional sports in the United States, and by many metrics, they are! Tens of thousands of people go to games, the TV and streaming numbers are improving, and soccer in the United States is more popular than it has ever been.
But the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL all do something that MLS does not: they have league-wide production of preseason games. The MLS season starts back up in less than two weeks, and except for the Concacaf Champions League there’s been next to no hype about the upcoming season.