The 2022 Major League Soccer season kicks off this Saturday, February 26, where the New York City F.C. will seek to endorse his crown, however, the rest of the clubs will try to prevent it, because for that they were greatly reinforced.
Despite some criticism that it usually receives, the MLS continues to grow and continues to be an attractive place for several international soccer players, so we will again see several foreign faces, since that is the great bet of some teams to seek the title.
To this day, according to the specialized site Transfermarktthe mls has a total of 440 foreigners, where the groups with the highest number are LAFC (22), Vancouver Whitecaps (23), Toronto F.C. (20), CF Montreal (29) and Inter-Miami (20).
At Inter-Miami they are footballers like Clement Diop (Senegal), Jairo Quinteros (Bolivia), Damion Lowe (Jamaica), Aime Mabika (Zambia), Kieran Gibbs (England), Joevin Jones (Trinidad and Tobago), Gregor (Brazil), Emerson Rodriguez (Colombia), Brek Shea (Norway), Robbie Robinson (Chile), Robert Taylor (Finland), Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina)among others.
With respect to Montrealmake an appearance James Pantemis (Greece), Gabriele Corbo (Italy), Rudy Camacho (France), Robert Orri Thorkelsson (Iceland), Victor Wanyama (Kenya), Rida Zouhir (Morocco), Ahmed Hamdi (Egypt), Jojea Kwizera (Congo), Romell Quito (Honduras), Lassi Lappalainen (Finland), Joaquin Torres (Argentina), Sunusi Ibrahim (Nigeria) and Kei Kamara (Sierra Leone).
speaking of Toronto F.C.we must remember that the Italian Lorenzo Insigne has already been booked, but he will not be the only foreigner, since he will be accompanied by Carlos Salcedo (Mexico), Kemar Lawrence (Jamaica), Alexander Pozuelo, Jesus Jimenez (Spain), Ifunanyachi Achara (Nigeria), Shane O’Neill (Ireland), Luca Petrasso, Jordan Perruzza (Italy) and Noble Okello (Uganda).
moving on to Vancouver Whitecapswe can find Thomas Hasal (Czech Republic), Issac Boehmer, Florian Jungwirth (Germany), Erik Godoy (Argentina), Ranko Veselinović (Serbia), Matteo Campagna (Italy), Javain Brown (Jamaica), Caio Alexandre (Brazil), Pedro Vite (Ecuador), Leonard Owusu (Ghana), Ryan Gauld (Scotland), Cristian Dajome (Colombia) and David Egbo (Nigerian).
In addition, LAFC has Carlos Vela (Mexico), Tomas Romero (El Salvador), Eddie Segura, Christian Arango and Jesus Murillo (Colombia), Mbacke and Mohammed Traore (Senegal), Diego Palacios and Jose Cifuentes (Ecuador), Moon-hwan Kim (South Korea), Franco Escobar (Argentina), Francis Ginella and Brian Rodriguez (Uruguay), Ilie Sanchez (Spain), Latif Blessing and Kwadwo Opoku (Ghana) and Ismael Tajouri-Sharadi (Libya).
Finally, in the case of the rest of the clubs in the United States, this is their number of foreigners: Nashville SC (8); New England Revolution (9); FC Dallas, Royal Salt Lake (eleven); D.C. United, houston dynamo (12); Seattle Sounders, Philadelphia Union, New York City F.C. (13); Atlanta United, Sporting Kansas City, Columbus Crew, Chicago Fire (14); Colorado Rapids, F.C. Cincinnati (15); Charlotte F.C., Austin F.C. (16); Orlando City S.C., San Jose Earthquakes, New York Red Bulls (17); LA Galaxy, Portland Timbers (18) and Minnesota United (19).
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