Major League Soccer’s preseason is underway, with all 29 teams reporting to coaching camps this week upfront of apply video games on the finish of January. If you are feeling like Columbus received the 2023 MLS Cup about 5 minutes in the past, you are not alone — this is likely one of the shortest offseasons in MLS historical past, with simply 38 days between final season’s title match and the beginning of preseason.
There are loads of narratives to observe as MLS warms up for the 2024 season, however some are extra compelling than others. Here are three teams we’re watching carefully as they start their subsequent MLS campaigns:
Inter Miami
No one’s preseason schedule is fuller, wilder or extra compelling than Inter Miami’s. The Florida membership will tackle nationwide teams from El Salvador and Hong Kong and face star-studded Saudi Arabian teams in Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mané’s Al-Nassr and Neymar and Aleksandar Mitrović’s Al-Hilal.
The key to Miami’s preseason is the event of its so-called “Fab Four”: Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Luis Suarez. This quartet performed collectively for six seasons at Barcelona, however they have not linked up since Suarez’s controversial departure from the membership in 2020.
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