I had a thought the other day, why not change the Major League Soccer schedule to later in the year, after leagues like Champions League is over. This would give international players the chance to play here in the offseason; (kind of like winter ball in baseball.) I mean players always need to stay fit. Vladimir Guerrero does it for MLB, whay can't other sport athletes?
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By: monkeykuhn
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yeah but the problem is if the MLS games are played on saturdays and sundays nobody will show up, on those days the baseball games will be sold out, the MLS should really schedule and have teams play once a week not 2 or 3
Actually, MLB teams don’t want their regular players to play winter ball. They only send players who don’t play regularly and need more work during the offseason. MLB owners don’t even want to let their players play in the World Baseball Classic (remember Hideki Matsui didn’t play for Japan). I’m not sure how Vladimir gets to play though…
Clubs do not want to expose their players to injury. Especially from activities away from their monetary interests. Clubs don’t like allowing their players play on their national teams… They would rather see their star players rest.
Also, other leagues treat MLS as competition. Believe it or not, MLS is ranked in the top 15 among the world’s leagues in attendance.
I’m sure Manchester United doesn’t want Wayne Rooney to play at Barcelona for a few matches… And they wouldn’t want to risk Rooney’s health playing in MLS.
I have been thinking about that four years and i think that it would be great to see some of the worlds talent in the u.s and plus maybe we can get some of the players the u.s are really starting to get great national teams on the women’s and men side so that could get more players in the u.s which means more composition which means better national teams and that can’t be bad.