First XI: What makes it great?
Published 7/22/2008 by Jeff Bradley at Major League Soccer News
It took MLS a while to get the formula right for these All-Star games, but in the opinion of FXI, it pretty much reached perfection when the league decided to pit its best against an established team from outside the U.S.
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