MLS players back season schedule change from calendar year to ‘European season’

January 12 – Major League Soccer (MLS) players have welcomed the league’s long-awaited decision to align its season with the global football calendar, but the reaction also raises an obvious question as to why it took this long?

From 2027, Major League Soccer will move to a summer-to-spring schedule, bringing it into line with most of the world’s major leagues. The regular season will kick off in mid-July, pause for a winter break from mid-December to early or mid-February,

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