As MLS pauses for Wednesday’s All-Star Game, the state of America’s top division is very much in the eye of the beholder
Amid all of the annual clamor of All-Star week, one of the regular rituals is Don Garber’s state of the union speech, wherein the MLS commissioner will present a snapshot of where MLS finds itself.
It can be an odd event, with few exact equivalents in world football. In part that’s because given the closed structure of the league, the MLS commissioner’s role is proportionally an outsize one compared to his nearest equivalents in much higher profile leagues – it’s hard to imagine a Richard Scudamore speech facing the same degree of scrutiny, for example, unless he was dropping a bombshell announcement.
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