What a wild ride the 2017 MLS regular season was. The league, for all its various shortcomings and absurdities, is incredibly exciting and ever-growing in quality. However, for all of its maturation and development, there’s still a brilliant charm to MLS that’s long since left Europe’s biggest leagues and the likes of the NFL, NBA and MLB.
The whimsical nature of certain elements can be frustrating (I’m talking about the referees), but at its core, MLS provides us with exactly what we crave from sport. It’s unpredictable, it’s open and and it’s wildly entertaining.
These MLS bloopers do a great job of capturing that spirit, and you can look at the best goals of the year and the best skills of the year to appreciate the league’s quality.