Major League Soccer is unlike any other football league in the world. While English football has existed for more than 150 years, Mexico has long entwined itself with the world’s most popular sport, and countries like Italy, Spain, Germany and many of the South American giants have played the game for as long as they have existed, in America, that same inherent interest in the sport does not exist.
Even more pertinently, the very manner in which sports are governed in America is different to the rest of the world. The playoff system is unusual, roster designations are extremely rare in world sport, while salary caps, trades, allocation money and drafts are somewhat alien to many other sports.