Get ready for a year of significant self-congratulation.
MLS will be playing its 25th season in 2020, and the growing league will be going to great lengths to let you know it. You’ll hear, read and watch tales of humble beginnings, cavernous concrete arenas, and something called the Miami Fusion before—and cue uplifting music—the likes of David Beckham, Arthur Blank and the residents of the Pacific Northwest catapult MLS to unanticipated heights.
From 10 clubs in 1996, there are now 26 and four more on the way. All-Ivy midfielder Andrew Shue was the attention-grabbing LA signing back then.