The MLS offseason seems to grow a little shorter every winter. The 2026 campaign will kick off just 77 days after Inter Miami CF ’s MLS Cup 2025 presented by Audi win over Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Saturday, and it’s essentially less than half that for most players, who begin reporting to preseason camps in early January.

This year at least, that’s just fine for the league’s contingent of US men’s national teamers aiming for a spot on the 2026 FIFA World Cup roster.

“I already started my offseason program,” Charlotte FC and USMNT center back Tim Ream told reporters after Friday’s World Cup draw . “I took 10 days off after November camp, and I'm right back to it.”

The veteran defender pointed to the words of Diego Luna , a teammate 16 years his junior, from a recent int

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