The sport that most people in America used to ignore is finally on its way to become a major sport.

The Major League Soccer is growing every year and is on its way to transform from a retirement league for European star players to a league of choice. The competition, the team’s budgets and the star players – all these factors have increased in the recent years and made the MLS to what it is today.

Today we see star players as Jermain Defoe, Thierry Henry, Clint Dempsey, Robbie Keane and Tim Cahill play in America. These players, with the exemption of Henry, are all in their prime and ready to play their best season of their careers. The players in the MLS have gained a lot of pace, physical strength, and vision for the game and motivation in the last couple of years combined with the fact that investors have done their fair share to promote America’s unpopular sport.

With currently five games played this season so far, two teams have especially stood out and made huge progress. One of those is the Columbus Crew, who is currently leading the Eastern Conference, and the other is FC Dallas, who has more points that any team in the two Conferences combined.

Surprisingly the heavyweight teams, LA Galaxy and D.C United, are struggling this year. Currently there is no one team to be the favorite to take the title which makes many teams a contender and increases the excitement in the league.

Last year it was Sporting Kansas City that took the MLS Cup trophy after an interesting season with quite a lot of upsets. Henry and the New York Redbulls got eliminated in the quarterfinals by the Houston Dynamo. It seems like the MLS is always full of surprises and great games.

Even though only five matches have been played so far this season, we can already predict that there will be a tough competition this year. Hopefully the world of soccer will notice the MLS soon and the league will get the recognition that it deserves.