Mid-season MLS awards, Best 11: Who you got?

Pet peeve about most soccer awards processes: holding midfielders get very little love.

It really is such an important position. Show me a team with a good holding midfielder and a I'll show you a team with a great chance, at least, to go places.

But a holding midfielder will never be a league MVP, mostly because so much of their important work is low on the glamour scale.

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