For the second straight year, three Seattle Sounders were named to the MLS Best XI. Raúl Ruidíaz, João Paulo and Yeimar Gomez Andrade all earned that honor this year. A year earlier, Ruidíaz was joined by Nicolás Lodeiro and Jordan Morris.
Prior to last year, the Sounders had only six Best XI players in their history and only once were two players named the same year (in 2014 when Chad Marshall was joined by Obafemi Martins). Ruidíaz is now just the second Sounder — along with Marshall — to be named to two different Best XIs and he’s the first to make it in consecutive seasons.