Globally speaking, the MLS isn’t a great league. So rather than cobbling together two all-star squads, the league honchos skim the cream and pit their best against a competent challenger from across the pond. This year, the squad of scrappy Americans and washed-up foreign legends will take on Arsenal in Avaya Stadium on July 28th.

Last season, the London football club finished second in the lauded Barclay’s Premier League. The club features international superstars including goalkeeping icon Petr Cech, defensive goliath Per Mertesacker, midfield wizard Mesut Özil and top forwards Alexis Sánchez and Olivier Giroud, the team’s leading goal scorer with 24 despite enduring a 15-game drought, the second-longest of his career.

They finished second in the league behind the upstart champions Leicester City, who began the season with long odds. Their coach Arsene Wenger holds the English records for longest win streak, longest unbeaten run and he’s the only manager to go the full 38 match season without losing. Last season, they made decent showings in both the FA Cup and the Champions League, getting eliminated in the sixth and fourth round respectively. But they did manage to snag the FA Community shield.

Özil functions as the main facilitator and the team’s most superb talent. He only netted eight goals last season, but he excels at unzipping defenses with brilliant through balls that set up his strikers, who unfortunately have been less than stellar at putting shots away. Since his record-breaking £42.4 million signing in 2013, a contract that pays him £200,000 a week, Özil has generated a truly astonishing 277 goal-scoring chances—only 32 have been converted.

The MLS squad is a true hodgepodge of talent. The squad features American nationals Clint Dempsey, Kyle Beckerman and Jermaine Jones, as well as hometown boy, Chris Wondolowski, the scrappy Earthquakes striker who, despite a solid career, will always be remembered for botching a gimme in the World Cup, even though the Yanks definitely didn’t deserve to beat Belgium.

The reigning league MVP, Sebastian Giovinco left the Italian superpower Juventus for Toronto FC while still relatively in his prime. And the Atomic Ant has just been shredding the inferior competition, racking up 30 goals in 51 games.

The other European imports would have comprised a superteam—10 years ago. The once-unstoppable striker Didier Drogba scored the most goals in the history of the Ivory Coast’s squad. Midfielder, Andrea Pirlo delivered devastating freekicks and orchestrated revelatory playmaking, skills that have aged nicely. World Cup Champion, David Villa racked up dozens of goals alongside Messi at FC Barcelona. And finally, Kaka is a Brazilian national treasure, a consummate attacking midfielder that excelled equally at assisting and scoring. He also formed a friendly off-field relationship with Özil when they battled for minutes at Real Madrid. Maybe after what’s sure to be the best soccer played in this region for some time, the two of them can share a pint under the Amway Stadium scoreboard at the longest outdoor bar in North America.