Friday’s USA-Mexico game in Columbus, Ohio, will be not only a matchup of Concacaf’s two biggest rivals in the opening game of the Hexagonal, but it will a battle of the two leagues they represent.Liga MX has a lead on MLS in terms of players called up for the Dos a Cero rematch — 14 to 11 — but MLS has many more players — 27 vs. 14 — when you include all players from the other fourHexagonal teams called up for the opening games.

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