As the Major League Soccer season reaches its midway point, Goal USA's Ives Galarcep selects his midseason Best XI.
The MLS all-star game is generally seen as the midway point of the Major League Soccer season, but it is usually about a month after the true mid-point of the campaign. The most recent slate of matches helped the league complete the first half of the season, which makes this a perfect time to look at which players have had the best seasons to date.
There are certainly names that most would have expected to be in contention for Best XI, led by strikers David Villa and Sebastian Giovinco, but also some truly surprising selections that few could have seen developing into Best XI-caliber players.